{"id":164,"date":"2004-01-24T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T16:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=164"},"modified":"2004-01-24T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2004-01-24T16:54:33","slug":"the-mighty-linguist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Linguist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually sustained an entire conversation in French yesterday.  I called the office of <i>L&#8217;Actualit\u00e9<\/i> to cancel my subscription.  It wasn&#8217;t a long conversation, I admit, but I produced several unrehearsed sentences.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kinda off French now, for political reasons, so I haven&#8217;t been studying or practicing it much.  But I&#8217;ll need it for my trip to Africa later this year, so I guess I should try to keep it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually sustained an entire conversation in French yesterday. I called the office of L&#8217;Actualit\u00e9 to cancel my subscription. It wasn&#8217;t a long conversation, I admit, but I produced several unrehearsed sentences. I&#8217;m kinda off French now, for political reasons, so I haven&#8217;t been studying or practicing it much. But I&#8217;ll need it for my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mighty Linguist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}