{"id":230837,"date":"2024-11-04T17:40:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T09:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230837"},"modified":"2024-11-04T17:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T09:40:34","slug":"character-amnesia-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230837","title":{"rendered":"Character Amnesia in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I happened to have a cold that day and was trying to write a brief note to a friend to cancel an appointment that afternoon. I found that I could not recall how to write the Chinese characters for the word \u2018sneeze\u2019. I asked my three friends to write the characters for me and, to my surprise, all three simply shrugged in sheepish embarrassment. Not one of them could correctly produce the characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/globalchinapulse.net\/character-amnesia-in-china\/\">Character Amnesia in China<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happened to have a cold that day and was trying to write a brief note to a friend to cancel an appointment that afternoon. I found that I could not recall how to write the Chinese characters for the word \u2018sneeze\u2019. I asked my three friends to write the characters for me and, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230838,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230837\/revisions\/230838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}