{"id":113,"date":"2008-02-20T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-02-20T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T15:08:00","slug":"arabic-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Arabic Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arabic names kill me. Most of the non-Mohamud related ones (Ahmed, Mahmoud, etc.) are just words. They name their kids &#8220;beautiful,&#8221; &#8220;pigeon,&#8221; &#8220;smile,&#8221; and even &#8220;justice.&#8221; I have a student in my conversation class whose name is Batool. She&#8217;s one of the better students in the class, but her name keeps throwing me off. Batool means &#8220;virgin&#8221; in Arabic. Who&#8217;d name their kid virgin?<\/p>\n<div>tags technorati : <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/yemen\" rel=\"tag\">yemen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/middle\" rel=\"tag\">middle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/east\" rel=\"tag\">east<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/name\" rel=\"tag\">name<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/names\" rel=\"tag\">names<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/virgin\" rel=\"tag\">virgin<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabic names kill me. Most of the non-Mohamud related ones (Ahmed, Mahmoud, etc.) are just words. They name their kids &#8220;beautiful,&#8221; &#8220;pigeon,&#8221; &#8220;smile,&#8221; and even &#8220;justice.&#8221; I have a student in my conversation class whose name is Batool. She&#8217;s one of the better students in the class, but her name keeps throwing me off. Batool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}