{"id":71,"date":"2008-11-03T12:44:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-11-03T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T19:57:24","slug":"baruch-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Baruch Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spotted in Berkeley:<\/p>\n

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Obama supporters get furious when anyone mentions that his middle name is Hussein — because it’s so obviously Arabic. But no one ever seems to point out that “Barack” is also<\/em> Arabic — it means “blessed” and is a Swahili loan word from Arabic<\/a>. The closely related Hebrew name “Baruch” also means “blessed” — which I suppose this bumpersticker would translate as (though in this case it actually just transliterates “Barack Obama” phonetically — it’s not a translation<\/em> to Hebrew).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spotted in Berkeley: Obama supporters get furious when anyone mentions that his middle name is Hussein — because it’s so obviously Arabic. But no one ever seems to point out that “Barack” is also Arabic — it means “blessed” and is a Swahili loan word from Arabic. The closely related Hebrew name “Baruch” also means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zombietime.com\/zomblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}