{"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 stum\u00adbled across this cheeky lit\u00adtle obser\u00adva\u00adtion at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderburg.org\/Misc\/Quotes\/quotes.html\">Glenn Van\u00adder\u00adburg\u2019s Quo\u00adta\u00adtions page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The French] have always hat\u00aded us, of course \u2026 but now they REALLY hate us, because our cul\u00adture has become so dom\u00adi\u00adnant that they\u2019re hav\u00ading trou\u00adble com\u00adplet\u00ading so much as a sin\u00adgle sen\u00adtence with\u00adout using Amer\u00adi\u00adcan words. They\u2019re always blurt\u00ading out state\u00adments like: Le soft\u00adware de la hard\u00adware est un humdinger! And then they get so mad that they could spit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I searched and dis\u00adcov\u00adered that it\u2019s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.edu\/~afreddos\/papers\/barry4.htm\">one of the fun\u00adni\u00adest Dave Bar\u00adry columns<\/a> I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stum\u00adbled across this cheeky lit\u00adtle obser\u00adva\u00adtion at Glenn Van\u00adder\u00adburg\u2019s Quo\u00adta\u00adtions page: [The French] have always hat\u00aded us, of course \u2026 but now they REALLY hate us, because our cul\u00adture has become so dom\u00adi\u00adnant that they\u2019re hav\u00ading trou\u00adble com\u00adplet\u00ading so much as a sin\u00adgle sen\u00adtence with\u00adout using Amer\u00adi\u00adcan words. They\u2019re always blurt\u00ading out state\u00adments like: \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/05\/14\/dave-barry-on-france\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cDave Bar\u00adry 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}