{"id":3080,"date":"2007-11-04T09:12:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T09:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2007-11-04T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T09:12:50","slug":"foreigners_thei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners &#038; Their Exotic Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Fallows <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/more_on_foreigners_and_their_exotic_languages.php\">offers a few amusing notes<\/a> on the challenges a traveller faces overseas.<br \/>\nI, too have had some of these experiences, though my luck in France was better than the sax player Fallows mentions.<br \/>\nA young Vietnamese shopkeeper greeted me in German one morning.  There was no shortage of German, French and Australian visitors in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Fallows <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/more_on_foreigners_and_their_exotic_languages.php\">offers a few amusing notes<\/a> on the challenges a traveller faces overseas.<br \/>\nI, too have had some of these experiences, though my luck in France was better than the sax player Fallows mentions.<br \/>\nA young Vietnamese shopkeeper greeted me in German one morning.  There was no shortage of German, French and Australian visitors in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}