{"id":229,"date":"2008-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-25T22:26:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T03:26:42","slug":"more-from-the-moi-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2008\/11\/26\/more-from-the-moi-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"More from the Moi notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2008\/11\/newsAP(8534)_img.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2008\/11\/newsAP(8534)_img.jpg\" alt=\"Moi people enjoying video footage taken of them.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>How about some Moi vocabulary?<\/p>\n<p>These are spelled &quot;American,&quot; not Moi &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>nah-bee-day:<\/em> I&#8217;m scared<\/p>\n<p><em>ohow: <\/em>Oh golly!<\/p>\n<p><em>tau: <\/em>No<\/p>\n<p><em>say-<strong>ah<\/strong>-way-hey: <\/em>It&#8217;s like that (said repeatedly when telling a story)<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, for a people who experience almost continuous rain and muddy trails, they have only one word for each:<\/p>\n<p><em>eddy: <\/em>rain<\/p>\n<p><em>duh-bee:<\/em> mud<\/p>\n<p>By the way, just writing notes in my notebook has attracted attention. Few of the Mois can read or write. But Carolyn Crockett is in the midst of literacy lessons, so that&#8217;s changing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be great when more Mois can not only read, but read the Word of God and Bible lessons in their own language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tantalizing tidbits from our time here in Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}