{"id":83,"date":"2018-09-29T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/?p=83"},"modified":"2018-09-29T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T23:57:11","slug":"adam-oshimomoles-slip-of-tongue-a-reflection-of-two-yoruba-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/adam-oshimomoles-slip-of-tongue-a-reflection-of-two-yoruba-proverbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Oshimomole\u2019s Slip of Tongue: A Reflection of Two Yoruba Proverbs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like we mentioned in <strong>CONFESSION OR SLIPS OF TONGUE: ADAMS OSHIOMOLE ON OSUN STATE RERUN ELECTION, <\/strong>there are Yoruba proverbs like \u201c<em>Oun ti\u0301 n\u0301 be la\u0301ra o\u0323lo\u0323\u0301ti\u0301 na\u0301a\u0300 ni o\u0323ti\u0301 n\u0301 paa\u0301 mo\u0323\u0301<\/em> (The drunkard gets drunk upon what he already has in his body (i.e in relation to thoughts) and <em>\u201cA\u0300a\u0301ya\u0301 fe\u0323\u0301 igi gu\u0300n, o ni\u0301 ku\u0300nmo\u0323\u0300 a\u0300na oun ha\u0301\u201d<\/em> A\u0300a\u0301ya\u0301 (an animal, already) desires to climb the tree, (but it said) its in-law\u2019s cane is hanging (on the tree) i.e making that an excuse. These seemed to be the points of those who strive to use in establishing that Adam\u2019s Oshiomole is actually saying the truth intentionally or unconsciously, what\u2019s your take? Do you know similar proverbs in other languages? \u00a0Kindly share with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like we mentioned in CONFESSION OR SLIPS OF TONGUE: ADAMS OSHIOMOLE ON OSUN STATE RERUN ELECTION, there are Yoruba proverbs like \u201cOun ti\u0301 n\u0301 be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[43,26,47,44,30,45,46,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingcolours.ng\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}