{"id":422,"date":"2006-05-29T09:49:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=422"},"modified":"2006-05-29T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T17:06:43","slug":"orkney-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/orkney-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"orkney diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Some time between 1529 and 1657, a mysterious character known only as Jo Ben travelled the length and breadth of Orkney, documenting his thoughts and discoveries in a form of diary.<\/p>\n<p>During his exploration, it is likely that Jo Ben came across Orcadians speaking their native tongue and may even give us a corrupted example of Norn when he states:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;they are cunning and plain speaking, they use dialect, as when we say Good Day, Goodman they say goanda boanda&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what is this &#8220;form of diary&#8221; written by Jo Ben?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkneyjar.com\/orkney\/nornprayer.htm\">OrkneyJar &#8211; Examples of Norn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time between 1529 and 1657, a mysterious character known only as Jo Ben travelled the length and breadth of Orkney, documenting his thoughts and discoveries in a form of diary. During his exploration,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}