{"id":6408,"date":"2012-11-05T22:48:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2012-11-05T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T08:55:32","slug":"empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/empty\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to the vacuous K-pop that occasionally ninjas its way onto 97.1 by the unfortunate grace of there being Japanese-language crossover K-songs that make it onto the Japanese chart rankings, I realized that although unintentional on their part, &#8220;KARA&#8221; means &#8220;empty&#8221; (\u00e7\u00a9\u00ba) in\u00c2\u00a0<em>Nihongo<\/em> &#8211; you know, like\u00c2\u00a0in &#8220;karate&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0or &#8220;karaoke&#8221; (go look it up).\u00c2\u00a0 How oddly appropriate!\u00c2\u00a0 Guess that&#8217;s another one to add to the list of otherwise innocuous names that go bad when transplanted into another language like &#8220;Nova&#8221; and &#8220;Pajero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/empty\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"asides-permalink\" title=\"Permanent Link to Empty\">(0)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to the vacuous K-pop that occasionally ninjas its way onto 97.1 by the unfortunate grace of there being Japanese-language crossover K-songs that make it onto the Japanese chart rankings, I realized that although unintentional on their part, &#8220;KARA&#8221; means &#8220;empty&#8221; (\u00e7\u00a9\u00ba) in\u00c2\u00a0Nihongo &#8211; you know, like\u00c2\u00a0in &#8220;karate&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0or &#8220;karaoke&#8221; (go look it up).\u00c2\u00a0 How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saJYlx-empty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6414,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}