{"id":3526,"date":"2005-10-05T09:03:53","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/05\/the-sesame-street-themein-klingon\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:28:29","slug":"the-sesame-street-themein-klingon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/05\/the-sesame-street-themein-klingon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sesame Street Theme&#8230;in Klingon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7582,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.tlg.uci.edu\\\/~opoudjis\\\/Klingon\\\/sesame.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150521043329\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.tlg.uci.edu:80\\\/~opoudjis\\\/Klingon\\\/sesame.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:14:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 01:40:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 01:40:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7583,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/45618&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060117185349\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/45618&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:14:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 17:18:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 17:18:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Original:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Sunny day<br \/>\n  Sweepin&#8217; the clouds away<br \/>\n  On my way<br \/>\n  to where the air is sweet.<br \/>\n  Can you tell me how to get,<br \/>\n  how to get to Sesame Street?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Klingon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  pem Hov jaj.<br \/>\n  Haw&#8217;choHnIS &#8216;eng &#8216;ej Haj.<br \/>\n  ghoch vIghaj;<br \/>\n  &#8216;ej pa&#8217; muDmo&#8217; jIbel.<br \/>\n  chay&#8217; <em>Sesame<\/em> He vIghoS?<br \/>\n  SIbI&#8217; jIHvaD &#8216;e&#8217; yIDel.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation of the Klingon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  A day of the daytime star.<br \/>\n  The clouds are compelled to commence fleeing, and are filled with dread.<br \/>\n  I have a destination;<br \/>\n  and there, because of the atmosphere, I am pleased.<br \/>\n  Describe to me <strong>immediately<\/strong><br \/>\n  how to go to Sesame Street.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlg.uci.edu\/~opoudjis\/Klingon\/sesame.html\" title=\"Sesame Street Song \/ Sesame He bom\">two more verses at the original location<\/a>. This is <em>so<\/em> wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/45618\" title=\"MeFi: Sesame Street in Klingon\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day of the daytime star. \/ The clouds are compelled to commence fleeing, and are filled with dread. \/ I have a destination; \/ and there, because of the atmosphere, I am pleased. \/ Describe to me **immediately** \/ how to go to Sesame Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[6,875,80,1783,4097],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-humor","tag-klingons","tag-music","tag-sesame-street","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}