{"id":1462,"date":"2003-04-07T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2003-04-07T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T18:12:00","slug":"cultural-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/07\/14\/12\/cultural-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So some Iraqis, picking over some damaged, abandoned US armoured vehicles, found some unusual graffiti&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/middle_east\/story.jsp?story=394749\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Cojone EH,&#8221; it said. This caused cultural diversity in our conversation with Iraqi civilians, some of whom had driven from their villas this hot Sunday morning for a bit of real life, very dangerous battlefield tourism. There was a little difficulty in translating cojones as &#8220;balls&#8221;. We wondered why &#8220;EH&#8221; &#8216; if they were indeed the tank commander&#8217;s initials &#8216; would name his tank after only one testicle. The Iraqis wanted to know why a soldier would call his tank a ball at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So some Iraqis, picking over some damaged, abandoned US armoured vehicles, found some unusual graffiti&#8230; &#8220;Cojone EH,&#8221; it said. This caused cultural diversity in our conversation with Iraqi civilians, some of whom had driven&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}