{"id":344,"date":"2005-05-14T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2005-05-14T17:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/14\/dave-barry-on-france\/"},"modified":"2005-05-14T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2005-05-14T17:40:25","slug":"dave-barry-on-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/14\/dave-barry-on-france","title":{"rendered":"Dave Barry on France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this cheeky little observation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderburg.org\/Misc\/Quotes\/quotes.html\">Glenn Vanderburg\u2019s Quotations page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The French] have always hated us, of course \u2026 but now they REALLY hate us, because our culture has become so dominant that they\u2019re having trouble completing so much as a single sentence without using American words. They\u2019re always blurting out statements like: Le software de la hardware est un humdinger! And then they get so mad that they could&nbsp;spit.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I searched and discovered that it\u2019s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.edu\/~afreddos\/papers\/barry4.htm\">one of the funniest Dave Barry columns<\/a> I\u2019ve&nbsp;seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled across this cheeky little observation at Glenn Vanderburg\u2019s Quotations page: [The French] have always hated us, of course \u2026 but now they REALLY hate us, because our culture has become so dominant that they\u2019re having trouble completing so much as a single sentence without using American words. They\u2019re always blurting out statements like: \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/14\/dave-barry-on-france\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cDave Barry on France\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-5y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}