{"id":20,"date":"2004-05-15T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp\/2005\/05\/15\/it-doesnt-have-to-be-foreign-language-bit\/"},"modified":"2004-05-15T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2004-05-15T09:00:09","slug":"it-doesnt-have-to-be-foreign-language-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/2004\/05\/15\/it-doesnt-have-to-be-foreign-language-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"It Doesn&#8217;t Have To Be (foreign language bit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign language bit is in Swahili. It could be translated as &#8220;Come stay with me, come lie with me&#8221; or possibly &#8220;I sleep with you because you are mine and I am yours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The following bit of Swahili (with its English equivalent) comes pretty close to the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lala pamoja nai mimi nyumbani yako? Sabubu nataka wewe ulalale hapa na mimi.<br \/>\n(Would you sleep with me at your house? Because I need you to sleep next to me.)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign language bit is in Swahili. It could be translated as &#8220;Come stay with me, come lie with me&#8221; or possibly &#8220;I sleep with you because you are mine and I am yours.&#8221; The following bit of Swahili (with its English equivalent) comes pretty close to the lyrics: Lala pamoja nai mimi nyumbani yako? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}