{"id":2995,"date":"2008-04-22T16:32:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200804\/these-turkish-are-crazy\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:15:09","slug":"these-turkish-are-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200804\/these-turkish-are-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"These Turkish Are Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via my cousin-in-law&#8217;s twitter feed, I came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/382026\/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail\">awesome story<\/a>\u00a0 of misunderstanding, stupidity, revenge and true love made possible only by the magic of technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update: <\/strong>A helpful <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/382026\/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail#c5296666\">comment<\/a>\u00a0 on the above story tells me that the innocent word in question &#8220;s?k???nca&#8221; literally means &#8220;in a squeeze&#8221;.\u00a0 The word reminds me of the Hindi word &#8220;shikhanja&#8221; which has a similar meaning. It is entirely possible that Hindi borrowed the word from Turkish. In that case, our failure to borrow the other word represents a huge missed opportunity to tackle our population problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via my cousin-in-law&#8217;s twitter feed, I came across an awesome story\u00a0 of misunderstanding, stupidity, revenge and true love made possible only by the magic of technology.\u00a0 Update: A helpful comment\u00a0 on the above story tells me that the innocent word in question &#8220;s?k???nca&#8221; literally means &#8220;in a squeeze&#8221;.\u00a0 The word reminds me of the Hindi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[43,124,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}