{"id":598,"date":"2013-05-16T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=598"},"modified":"2013-05-16T13:03:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:03:44","slug":"did-you-know-about-myanmar-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/did-you-know-about-myanmar-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know &#8211; About Myanmar (Burma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Myanmar has three seasons: hot, rainy, and cold<\/li>\n<li>Myanmar is one of three nations that has not yet adopted the metric system so distance is measured in inches, feet, and miles<\/li>\n<li>Weight and mass is measured in baskets and viss, with 1 basket equaling 8 tins (about soup cans) and a viss equaling 3.6 pounds<\/li>\n<li>In Myanmar New Year is celebrated with a &#8220;water pouring festival&#8221; to symbolize the washing away of the previous year&#8217;s bad luck and sins &#8211; and it lasts 4 days &#8211; expect to get wet!<\/li>\n<li>The Myanmar calendar uses lunar months and solar years<\/li>\n<li>Days of the month are counted in two halves, according to the waxing and waning of the moon<\/li>\n<li>American money must be new, crisp, clean, and unwrinkled to be exchangeable in Myanmar<\/li>\n<li>This is the year 1375 on the Myanmar calendar<\/li>\n<li>The Burmese alphabet contains 33 consonants and 12 vowels, a circular script, and no required spaces between words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to thank our webmaster, Yin Min Nwe, a Myanmar native, for her assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar has three seasons: hot, rainy, and cold Myanmar is one of three nations that has not yet adopted the metric system so distance is measured in inches, feet, and miles Weight and mass is measured in baskets and viss, with 1 basket equaling 8 tins (about soup cans) and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}