{"id":280,"date":"2014-10-30T05:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2014-10-30T05:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T04:03:14","slug":"do-the-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/2014\/10\/30\/do-the-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quicky: as I sit there on the sidewalk, just reading a bit and waiting to be able to check-in, an elderly man comes up to me and asks if I&#8217;m lost. When I say I&#8217;m not, he excuses himself but joins me anyway. I&#8217;m amused because I think he would like to practice his English skills, which are relatively good, I&#8217;m happy to say. A short but pleasant conversation later (about where I&#8217;m from, amongst other things), the man says goodbye and is on his way again. <\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: he mentioned that he&#8217;s 62 years old and learned English in high school some 45 years ago. Well done, sir, well done. <\/p>\n<p>Not so fun fact: the poor fellow got surgery just a couple of weeks ago for having cancer, intestinal cancer if I&#8217;m not mistaken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quicky: as I sit there on the sidewalk, just reading a bit and waiting to be able to check-in, an elderly man comes up to me and asks if I&#8217;m lost. When I say I&#8217;m not, he excuses himself but joins me anyway. I&#8217;m amused because I think he would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}