{"id":244,"date":"2009-03-19T09:57:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=2"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:57:54","slug":"bonan-novjartagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/bonan-novjartagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonan Novjartagon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bonan <strong>Novjartagon<\/strong>, miaj amikoj! The year 2008 is all said and done, and it certainly chose to end with a bang of its own. Here in <strong>Usono<\/strong>, the air is bitterly cold and windy, but that didn&#8217;t prevent the most devoted of us from going out and celebrating the new year! I find it difficult to be chilly when people are acting so warmly on this day of global celebration.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Nov-,<\/em> new; <em>jar-<\/em>, year; <em>tag-,<\/em> day; = New Year&#8217;s Day. <em>Usono<\/em> = United States)<\/p>\n<p>This sort of worldwide goodwill is exactly what L.L. Zamenhof, <strong>kreinto<\/strong> of the Esperanto language, would have been hoping for. He invented Esperanto in the hopes that a universal language could help foster a more peaceful global society. I think that dream can be realized. While we are still a long way away from that goal, a day like today gives us a <strong>videto<\/strong> into the human spirit &#8211; one that shows we have the ability to coexist peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>krei,<\/em> to create; <em>-int-<\/em>, past participle; <em>-o,<\/em> denotes noun; = creator. <em>Vidi, <\/em>to see; <em>-et-<\/em>, diminutive; = a peek; a small look)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonan Novjartagon, miaj amikoj! The year 2008 is all said and done, and it certainly chose to end with a bang of its own. Here in Usono, the air is bitterly cold and windy, but that didn&#8217;t prevent the most devoted of us from going out and celebrating the new year! I find it difficult&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/bonan-novjartagon\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-esperanto-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}