{"id":13619,"date":"2012-03-30T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T21:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13619"},"modified":"2016-09-17T20:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:50:29","slug":"i-love-living-in-a-bilingual-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/i-love-living-in-a-bilingual-country\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Living in a Bilingual Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hanging out in the office this morning when the phone rang. Quebec came up on the call display, so I suspected it was BMO calling me about a fax I sent them a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n<p>It was.<\/p>\n<p>And I just loved the pregnant pause when I answered in English and the person on the other end of the line was dumbfounded by the realisation that she had just called Alberta and she didn&#8217;t speak a word of English. A quick &#8220;Bonjour!&#8221; on my part got the ball rolling, but I bet those were two of the longest seconds in that woman&#8217;s life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hanging out in the office this morning when the phone rang. Quebec came up on the call display, so I suspected it was BMO calling me about a fax I sent them a couple of days ago. It was. And I just loved the pregnant pause when I answered in English and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,1226,635,11,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-personal","category-rving","category-travel","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}