{"id":17361,"date":"2018-04-19T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17361"},"modified":"2018-04-19T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:39:14","slug":"swaziland-renamed-to-kingdom-of-eswatini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/04\/19\/swaziland-renamed-to-kingdom-of-eswatini\/","title":{"rendered":"Swaziland renamed to Kingdom of eSwatini"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-43821512\">According to the BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>King Mswati III of Swaziland announced on Wednesday that he was renaming the country \"the Kingdom of eSwatini\".<\/p>\r\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\r\n<p>The new name, eSwatini, means \"land of the Swazis\". The change was unexpected, but King Mswati has been referring to Swaziland for years as eSwatini.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I think there are all sorts of interesting things about what country names mean and what changing them means, but instead of writing a full article about that, I\u2019m just posting this one item.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17362,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions\/17362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}