{"id":603,"date":"2004-02-04T19:21:27","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/butchering-the-spanish-language\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T19:21:27","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T00:21:27","slug":"butchering-the-spanish-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/butchering-the-spanish-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Butchering the Spanish Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent the last half hour butchering the spanish language. I need to apologize to the people of guatemala to whom I&#8217;ve spoken with on the phone. You have been very nice to this loco norteamericano. If only I had spent more time eschuche en la clase instead of dorm\u00c8 en la clase, I would be doing much better. Or maybe if I had just focused on one language instead of taking french, then spanish, then swedish, and then back to spanish.<\/p>\n<p>If lady luck is smiling upon me, at approximately sieto y media I will be able to speak with my lovely wife. If not I will be forced to babble incomprehensibly at the gentleman on the other end of the phone while the only spanish phrases that will come to mind are: mis pantalones esta en fuego, donde esta el ba\u00d2o? and Hace mucho frio en minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent the last half hour butchering the spanish language. I need to apologize to the people of guatemala to whom I&#8217;ve spoken with on the phone. You have been very nice to this loco norteamericano. If only I had spent more time eschuche en la clase instead of dorm\u00c8 en la clase, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-9J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}