{"id":13232,"date":"2012-08-28T01:40:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=13232"},"modified":"2012-08-28T01:40:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:40:33","slug":"observations-tuesday-learning-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=13232","title":{"rendered":"Observations tuesday &#8211; learning characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/346465149\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120822-054830.jpg\" alt=\"20120822-054830.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>I was teaching Krysta her first Chinese characters and came to a realization. The old style characters are sometimes much easier to teach than the new. Take \u99ac (m\u01ce, or horse).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The old version (\u99ac) looks much more like a horse with 4 legs and a rider than the new, stylized and simplified version (\u9a6c). Of course the new version is much easier to read and write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was teaching Krysta her first Chinese characters and came to a realization. The old style characters are sometimes much[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[776,2077,3330,3787],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-langauge-ramblings","tag-chinese","tag-learning","tag-simplified","tag-traditional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}