{"id":912,"date":"2005-07-25T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T21:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=912"},"modified":"2005-07-25T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T21:22:26","slug":"ugly_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Ugly American"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I watched Before Sunrise<\/a>, a movie I’ve loved since my brother introduced me to it several years ago. Ethan Hawke’s character, Jesse, is telling Celine about his attempt to speak French in Paris. He is waiting in line to buy a train ticket, mentally practicing the French word for “ticket” (un billet<\/em>). But when he gets to the booth, his mind goes blank. “All I can manage to say is ‘Yeah, hi, um, I need a ticket to get me from…”
\nThat’s going to be me, isn’t it? I’ll be all pumped to finally use my French in a caf\u00e9 and I’ll open my mouth and some mangled sentence will come out and the waiter will look at me like I just spoke Swahili. And then I’ll get all embarrassed and speak nothing but English for the rest of the trip. I feel totally lame already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I watched Before Sunrise, a movie I’ve loved since my brother introduced me to it several years ago. Ethan Hawke’s character, Jesse, is telling Celine about his attempt to speak French in Paris. He is waiting in line to buy a train ticket, mentally practicing the French word for “ticket” (un billet). But […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-eI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}