{"id":520,"date":"2005-09-09T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=520"},"modified":"2005-09-09T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T07:40:00","slug":"the-basque-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"The Basque country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking for the past few days about being in France, but of course from another perspective I&#8217;m in the &#8220;Basque country&#8221;. This is not, in general, very evident, except for the <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.decoralia.com\/site\/mag\/home.cfm?type=article&amp;id=91\">traditional Basque houses<\/a>, most of which I suspect are not very old, the Basque language on the official signage, and the odd restaurant and linen shop.<\/p>\n<p>One night I asked for the wine of the region and got Irouleguy. I wrote it down phonetically as &#8220;ir-ree-le-goo&#8221; &#8211; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much point in trying to pronounce Basque words any other way.<\/p>\n<p>I found this interesting piece on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org\/magazine\/archives\/arch_story\/061005.htm\">Basque tradition in America<\/a> and a simple online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogs.susx.ac.uk\/users\/larryt\/basque.words.html\">dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking for the past few days about being in France, but of course from another perspective I&#8217;m in the &#8220;Basque country&#8221;. This is not, in general, very evident, except for the traditional Basque houses, most of which I suspect are not very old, the Basque language on the official signage, and the odd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}