{"id":1512,"date":"2014-01-10T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2014-01-10T16:32:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T21:32:55","slug":"1512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2014\/01\/10\/1512\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta be creative&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hard things in this language is keeping straight who said what or who did what.\u00a0 They have the same pronoun for he\/she\/it.\u00a0 And all those have the same verb prefixes for the actor of an action and the object of an action.\u00a0 It can get a little complicated.<\/p>\n<p>So, as my language helper and I began to work through Jonah, I found she wasn\u2019t understanding me.\u00a0 I started putting in all the proper names for each action to clarify who was doing what, but she was still confused.\u00a0 So, I got out the visuals\u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1514\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2014\/01\/10\/1512\/jonah-1-aids\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1514\" title=\"Jonah 1 aids\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/files\/2014\/01\/Jonah-1-aids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/files\/2014\/01\/Jonah-1-aids.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/files\/2014\/01\/Jonah-1-aids-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/files\/2014\/01\/Jonah-1-aids-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/files\/2014\/01\/Jonah-1-aids-500x317.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Impromptu visual aids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My camera became Yahweh.\u00a0 Jonah was a little lotion bottle.\u00a0 I drew out Ninevah &amp; Joppa &amp; Tarshish and the sea.\u00a0 A pill box became the boat.<\/p>\n<p>And, praise God, we had understanding!\u00a0 Jonah 1 is now finished.<\/p>\n<p>When I get back to Las Moras, we\u2019ll continue on.\u00a0 She\u2019s curious to finish the story!\u00a0 Last she knows, Jonah was swallowed by the fish, but didn\u2019t die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hard things in this language is keeping straight who said what or who did what.\u00a0 They have the same pronoun for he\/she\/it.\u00a0 And all those have the same verb prefixes for the actor of an action and the object of an action.\u00a0 It can get a little complicated. So, as my language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"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":[424,423],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture-language","7":"category-news-article","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}