{"id":3977,"date":"2008-11-26T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T05:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2008-11-26T01:28:02","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T05:28:02","slug":"dont-sleep-there-are-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/dont-sleep-there-are-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Sleep There Are Snakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Daniel Everett<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/aod\/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4\/bookof_fri\"><strong>BBC Book of the Week<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; listen only while it lasts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/arts\/botw_gallery1.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/piraha-320x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pirah\u00e3 tribesman in the Brazilian Amazon.\" width=\"320\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Everett lived among the Pirah\u00e3, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil, whose remoteness meant that their language was incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>He began as a linguist and a missionary, his task to translate the New Testament into their dialect. But his story tells of how, over the years, the Pirah\u00e3s changed him more than he could influence them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/arts\/botw_gallery1.shtml\">See more photos taken of the Pirah\u00e3 tribe during the project<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/arts\/book_week.shtml\"><strong>BBC Book of the Week site<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Everett BBC Book of the Week &#8211; listen only while it lasts Daniel Everett lived among the Pirah\u00e3, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil, whose remoteness meant that their language was incomprehensible. He began as a linguist and a missionary, his task to translate the New Testament into their dialect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}