{"id":2948,"date":"2004-12-16T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2004-12-16T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T12:44:03","slug":"2004-12-16-pentagon-translation-conundrum-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2948","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon translation conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A friend email me the hilarious picture below, apparently taken from a manual for a translation device to be used by the Pentagon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/images\/thumb-babylonppt3.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/images\/thumb-babylonppt3.gif\" alt=\"translation\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This raises two immediate questions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Are the preparations to invade Iran really that advanced?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why will American soldiers speak Farsi to Indian women?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">A friend email me the hilarious picture below, apparently taken from a manual for a translation device to be used by the Pentagon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/images\/thumb-babylonppt3.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/images\/thumb-babylonppt3.gif\" alt=\"translation\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This raises two immediate questions:<br \/>\n1. Are the preparations to invade Iran really that advanced?<br \/>\n2. Why will American soldiers speak Farsi to Indian women?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}