{"id":89253,"date":"2019-04-19T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/19\/here-is-a-story-story-it-is-how-fairytales-are-told-in-other-tongues\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T01:09:07","slug":"here-is-a-story-story-it-is-how-fairytales-are-told-in-other-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=89253","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Here is a story! Story it is&#039;: how fairytales are told in other tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Korea to Germany to Nigeria, every culture has its own version of \u2018once upon a time\u2019 \u2013 and most are more interesting than the EnglishIn Tamil, folk stories and fairytales, the sort that grandparents tell grandchildren before bed, often begin, \u201cIn that only place\u2026\u201d. In another Indian language, Telugu, stories start \u201cHaving been said and said and said\u2026\u201d. In English, of course, it is \u201cOnce upon a time\u2026\u201d.Chitra Soundar, an Indian-British author and storyteller, was thinking about her grandmother\u2019s stories, which always began with the classic Tamil opener, when she asked people on Twitter to share how stories began in their languages. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/apr\/19\/here-is-a-story-story-it-is-how-fairytales-are-told-in-other-tongues\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Here is a story! Story it is&#039;: how fairytales are told in other tongues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Korea to Germany to Nigeria, every culture has its own version of \u2018once upon a time\u2019 \u2013 and most are more interesting than the EnglishIn Tamil, folk stories and fairytales, the sort that grandparents tell grandchildren before bed, often begin, \u201cIn that only place\u2026\u201d. In another Indian language, Telugu, [&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-89253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89253","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=89253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}