{"id":76790,"date":"2019-01-21T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/21\/irish-state-agency-refuses-to-spell-names-correctly-on-public-transport-pass\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:42:41","slug":"irish-state-agency-refuses-to-spell-names-correctly-on-public-transport-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=76790","title":{"rendered":"Irish state agency refuses to spell names correctly on public transport pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Transport Authority is citing a \u2018technical limitation\u2019 stopping it from printing fadasA slanting line over a vowel, the fada, or acute accent, is the Irish way of indicating a particular pronunciation or meaning. Se\u00e1n is the Irish version of John whereas sean means old. On Monday the fada had a new meaning: affronted. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/21\/irish-state-agency-refuses-to-spell-names-correctly-on-public-transport-pass\" target=\"_blank\">Irish state agency refuses to spell names correctly on public transport pass<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Transport Authority is citing a \u2018technical limitation\u2019 stopping it from printing fadasA slanting line over a vowel, the fada, or acute accent, is the Irish way of indicating a particular pronunciation or meaning. Se\u00e1n is the Irish version of John whereas sean means old. On Monday the fada had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}