{"id":505,"date":"2016-03-13T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/?p=505"},"modified":"2023-02-04T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T22:55:18","slug":"1-sha-guo-06-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"1. Sha-Guo 06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Willie&#8217;s handwriting is somewhat legible &#8230; x_X<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gbegluza-Hwewi&#8221; is my direct translation of &#8220;warthog&#8221; and &#8220;fish&#8221; in the Fon language of Benin, with help from the website <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friends-of-benin.org\/Fonisfun\/Useful_vocabulary.htm\">Fon is Fun<\/a><\/em> &#8230; (The seaboard capital of Benin in our world, on the other hand, has the name Cotonou, which means &#8220;mouth of the river of death&#8221; &#8211; a reference to the slave trade :\/ .) \u00a0In this world, the area has recently made itself independent of colonial rule, and I suppose Ban La-Ilanam would like something like the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/People%27s_Republic_of_Benin\">People&#8217;s Republic of Benin<\/a> to happen there.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I made a &#8220;behind the scenes&#8221; photo before I started inking:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Making of Dog Island page 6 by Turukhtan, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/turukhtan\/7983496094\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8315\/7983496094_c53020e27e.jpg\" alt=\"Making of Dog Island page 6\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got some postcards by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiitutakalo.net\/\">Tiitu Takalo<\/a> that are extremely inspiring. :3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Willie&#8217;s handwriting is somewhat legible &#8230; x_X &#8220;Gbegluza-Hwewi&#8221; is my direct translation of &#8220;warthog&#8221; and &#8220;fish&#8221; in the Fon language of Benin, with help from the website Fon is Fun &#8230; (The seaboard capital of Benin in our world, on the other hand, has the name Cotonou, which means &#8220;mouth of the river [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/dog-island\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}