{"id":1070,"date":"2014-11-09T18:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T08:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2014-10-16T14:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T04:03:39","slug":"fiji-wooden-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"FIJI – Wooden Ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bula<\/a>PLACE REPRESENTED:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fiji Islands<\/p>\n

ITEM:\u00a0Ornament<\/p>\n

NOTES:\u00a0This trinket is not from Bula, Indonesia nor Bula, The Phillipines. It\u2019s from Fiji and the “bula” is not a place but a famous local expression for “hello”.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why “hello” is on an object in the shape of a knife though … it’s hardly inviting.<\/p>\n

Maybe tourists feel threatened and are more likely to buy when they are confronted by a local yelling “bula” and brandishing what appears to be a dagger?<\/p>\n

I’m sure airlines won’t let you take this in carry-on luggage.<\/p>\n

How many of these simple tourist trinkets can a local churn out in one hour?<\/p>\n

YEAR (APPROXIMATE):\u00a01990s<\/p>\n

MADE FROM:\u00a0wood<\/p>\n

MADE IN: \u00a0Fiji\u00a0(probably)<\/p>\n

MANUFACTURER:\u00a0Handmade<\/p>\n

DIMENSIONS:\u00a045cm\u00a0long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PLACE REPRESENTED:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fiji Islands ITEM:\u00a0Ornament NOTES:\u00a0This trinket is not from Bula, Indonesia nor Bula, The Phillipines. It\u2019s from Fiji and the “bula” is not a place but a famous local expression for “hello”. I’m not sure why “hello” is on an … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,18],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiji","category-ornament","tag-1990s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveltrinkets.negstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}