{"id":4468,"date":"2014-08-19T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pidf.org\/\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2020-08-27T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T00:20:40","slug":"hawaiian-thought-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/hawaiian-thought-of-the-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Thought of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kai N\u014d<\/strong>: Why not?; I thought, presumed, or assumed (but it was not so)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figuratively speaking in English, using \u201ckai n\u014d\u201d in this manner can be seen as a colloquial way of saying something like, \u201cI thought we were supposed to work on Friday, but it was a holiday,\u201d as compared to the more formal example, \u201cI had no prior knowledge that there was a holiday last week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our k\u016bpuna had a way with words and idioms. If you looked deep enough, you could find a response, which created balance in such a conversation in Hawaiian. An appropriate response to \u201ckai n\u014d\u201d would be \u201ceia k\u0101\u201d (\u201cAt last!\u201d or \u201cThere it is!\u201d). These phrases may also present themselves in situations other than verbally. You might even see it in action at work with keiki or caregivers. There may be some times that they don\u2019t quite give a correct answer to a question or they thought they found the right solution but didn\u2019t succeed, you know that they\u2019re still trying to figure it out. That can be seen as an example of the term, \u201ckai n\u014d.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When they do finally figure it out and that \u2018light bulb\u2019 goes on, that could be seen as an example of \u201ceia k\u0101.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figuratively speaking in English, using \u201ckai n\u014d\u201d in this manner can be seen as a colloquial way of saying something like, \u201cI thought we were supposed to work on Friday, but it was a holiday,\u201d as compared to the more formal example, \u201cI had no prior knowledge that there was a holiday last week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,20,35],"tags":[326,235],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hui-nohona","category-news","category-programs","tag-hawaiian-thought-of-the-week","tag-hui-nohona"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pidf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}