{"id":485,"date":"2006-03-12T00:50:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2006-03-12T00:50:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T08:50:23","slug":"hablamos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/hablamos\/","title":{"rendered":"Hablamos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cat &#038; Fiddle\" title=\"Cat &#038; Fiddle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0306\/menu.jpg\" \/>This is the sort of thing that happens on the Mezzanine at Amoeba:<\/p>\n<p>A woman approaches the counter. She asks timidly, &#8220;Habla Espanol?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, some of us do speak a little Spanish, but often it&#8217;s not just a little Spanish that&#8217;s needed, but rather a complete grasp of the grammar and vocabulary, as well as a working knowledge of colloquial usage and a keen grasp on all of the capitols of every country in South America (the capitol of Uruguay is Montevideo.) So we page someone who knows Spanish and has a free moment and who has been to Montevideo and that person huffs it up to the Mezzanine and finds this timid Spanish speaker and asks &#8220;Que quieres?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And she says, &#8220;Tiene <em>Patch Adams<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sort of thing that happens on the Mezzanine at Amoeba: A woman approaches the counter. She asks timidly, &#8220;Habla Espanol?&#8221; Now, some of us do speak a little Spanish, but often it&#8217;s not just a little Spanish that&#8217;s needed, but rather a complete grasp of the grammar and vocabulary, as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,44],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}