{"id":3286,"date":"2010-02-08T20:46:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2010-02-08T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T01:46:14","slug":"repostpakistani-ambassador-rejected-because-his-name-is-nsfw-in-arabic-fp-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/08\/repostpakistani-ambassador-rejected-because-his-name-is-nsfw-in-arabic-fp-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic &#124; FP Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>funny!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic<br \/>\nPosted By David Kenner Wednesday, February 3, 2010 &#8211; 4:48 PM Share<br \/>\nDespite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan&amp;apos;s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, and everything to do with his name &#8212; which, in Arabic, translates to &#8220;biggest dick&#8221;:<br \/>\nIn Saudi Arabia, size does count.<br \/>\nA high level Pakistani diplomat has been rejected as Ambassador of Saudi Arabia because his name, Akbar Zib, equates to &#8220;Biggest Dick&#8221; in Arabic. Saudi officials, apparently overwhelmed by the idea of the name, put their foot down and gave the idea of his being posted there, the kibosh.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/02\/03\/ambassador_at_very_large\">Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic | FP Passport<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>funny! Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic Posted By David Kenner Wednesday, February 3, 2010 &#8211; 4:48 PM Share Despite having served for years as a distinguished Pakistani diplomat, Akbar Zeb reportedly cannot receive accreditation as Pakistan&amp;apos;s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The reason, apparently, has nothing to do with his credentials, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/08\/repostpakistani-ambassador-rejected-because-his-name-is-nsfw-in-arabic-fp-passport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Pakistani ambassador rejected because his name is NSFW in Arabic &#124; FP Passport&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}