{"id":1621,"date":"2010-03-11T11:07:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T11:07:32","slug":"chinese-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1621","title":{"rendered":"Chinese whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nGame. So the game has a name: where teams competing by passing a message verbally from one teammate to another until the last teammate and see if the last member can recite the same message in accuracy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI have made mention of this game several times to illustrate how sacred text are carefully passed and how people tend to be misled, whether it be intentional or unintentional.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs I brought up in a lesson on Islam on last Sunday's youth group, I was told by one student that it's called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_whispers\" target=\"_blank\">telephone (more commonly known in the U.S.), which is another name of the game this Chinese Whispers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game. So the game has a name: where teams competing by passing a message verbally from one teammate to another until the last teammate and see if the last member can recite the same message in accuracy. I have made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabularies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}