{"id":881,"date":"2009-08-20T19:42:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2009-08-20T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:42:28","slug":"french-lessons-body-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/french-lessons-body-language\/","title":{"rendered":"French lessons: Body Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last lesson with my tutor was a review of body parts. She didn&#8217;t know the english word for \u00able foie\u00bb. Here is the cross-cultural exchange to describe that particular human organ, translated from french. I&#8217;m sure you can guess what organ we were talking about:<\/p>\n<p> <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Tutor:<\/i> When you drink very much, it gets <em>cirrhose<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Me:<\/i> Eh?<\/p>\n<p><i>Tutor:<\/i> When you drink very much, it will be hurt. It is here. [Points to her side.]<\/p>\n<p><i>Me:<\/i> Ah, I understand. This is the section of the geese that one has eaten when it is fat, too fat.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The staff apologize for the appalling pun in the title of this post. Will just can&#8217;t help himself sometimes. For the record, superior movie references include:<\/em> Body Shots, Body Double <em>and<\/em> Body Count.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Other passable titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No body is perfect<\/li>\n<li>Busybody<\/li>\n<li>Organ grinder<\/li>\n<li>Vestigial organ<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you for your consideration.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last lesson with my tutor was a review of body parts. She didn&#8217;t know the english word for \u00able foie\u00bb. Here is the cross-cultural exchange to describe that particular human organ, translated from french. I&#8217;m sure you can guess what organ we were talking about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[704],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}