{"id":4069,"date":"2010-04-12T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T22:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms2\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2011-01-04T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T20:16:47","slug":"interpreter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/04\/interpreter\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERPRETER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To attend the meeting of the communist international, the Tanzanian delegate, the only communist in Tanzania, left six months early.<\/p>\n<p>He walked north along the coast of Africa, swam across the red sea, narrowly escaped sharks, was enslaved in Saudi Arabia but escaped, and made it to Moscow on the last day of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The other delegates were excited, full of anticipation that the revolution would now spread to Africa.\u00a0 But there was a problem: he only spoke Swahili.\u00a0 Leon Trotsky offered to interpret for him.\u00a0 The delegate spoke and Trotsky translated.\u00a0 The other delegates gave him a thunderous, enthusiastic applause.<\/p>\n<p>After the speech, Stalin said to Trotsky, &#8220;<em>I know you are smart, but you don&#8217;t know Swahili<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trotsky said, &#8220;<em>That is true, but I knew what he was going to say<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To attend the meeting of the communist international, the Tanzanian delegate, the only communist in Tanzania, left six months early.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}