{"id":16261,"date":"2015-12-04T00:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T08:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=16261"},"modified":"2015-12-03T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T07:34:15","slug":"happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2015\/12\/04\/happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought readers\u00a0would get a kick out of this. The Arbutus Shopping Centre has winter signs that all have the identical scene \u2013 basically Christmas gingerbread houses and bears snowboarding \u2013 that say things in several different languages, like \u201c<em>Joyeuses F\u00eate<\/em>,\u201d \u201cHappy Holidays,\u201d in French, as well as something in Chinese and what you see in the photo in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t understand one word of the Hebrew sign, so I took the photo and sent it to my daughter and son who decoded it immediately. It seems that the mall, with all good intentions, took the Hebrew words \u201c<em>Chag Sameach Shel<\/em>\u201d (\u201cHappy Holiday of\u201d) but wrote the Hebrew letters in the English order, left to right. Chag sameach shel Chanukah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought readers\u00a0would get a kick out of this. The Arbutus Shopping Centre has winter signs that all have the identical scene \u2013 basically Christmas gingerbread houses and bears snowboarding \u2013 that say things in several different languages, like \u201cJoyeuses F\u00eate,\u201d \u201cHappy Holidays,\u201d in French, as well as something in Chinese and what you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[5011,2517],"class_list":["post-16261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-arbutus-shopping-centre","tag-chanukah"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}