{"id":55,"date":"2012-10-15T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2012-10-26T03:13:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T03:13:14","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you able to correctly pronounce Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull? Did you name your cat Bj\u00f6rk? Perhaps you spent a week in Reykjav\u00edk and returned home actually missing the subtle scent of sulfur in your shower. If so, you may be afflicted with Icelandic Obsessive Disorder, a generally harmless condition which left untreated can ultimately lead to thoughts of learning the language.<\/p>\n<p>I started this blog to help people like you and me, since you can&#8217;t spend all your time listening to Of Monsters And Men or Sigur R\u00f3s, or searching online for brenniv\u00edn.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this site can be of interest to both the casual and serious student of the language, as well as anyone who likes all things Icelandic. So whether you&#8217;re descended from Vikings or just think the letters <em><strong>\u00f0<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>\u00fe<\/strong><\/em> look neat, feel free to stop by to get your fix of the coolest member of the North Germanic language family \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you able to correctly pronounce Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull? Did you name your cat Bj\u00f6rk? Perhaps you spent a week in Reykjav\u00edk&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}