{"id":5400,"date":"2016-03-18T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2016-09-08T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:05:53","slug":"a-first-time-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-first-time-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A First Time For Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this morning that the charge cord for my phone was fraying, needing a repair with some electrical tape, which I didn&#8217;t have. So it was time for me to finally set foot in Isla&#8217;s small hardware store.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMGP0378.jpg\" alt=\"Isla de la Piedra hardware store\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d be able to poke around and so did not do any linguistic research ahead of time&#8230; As it turns out, the store really is tiny and you have to ask for what you want at the counter. So I told the gal behind the desk, &#8220;Busco cinta \u00e9lectrica para reparar alambre,&#8221; which was the best I could come up with off the top of my head. Literally, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for electrical tape to repair wiring.&#8221; I knew cinta means tape in the context of sewing (cinta de contact is velcro) and alambre means wiring in the\u00a0telecom world, but I had no idea if\u00a0the words applied in this\u00a0particular context. Well, the gal replied with the magical\u00a0&#8220;\u00a1Claro!&#8221;, which means you&#8217;ve been understood, and pulled out two different roll sizes. Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the proper term for electrical tape is &#8220;cinta de aislar,&#8221; with aislar meaning isolation or insulation. The latter makes sense in an electrical context, in that you use the tape to insulate your wires.<\/p>\n<p>The roll of tape was $7, or 0.54CAD. I&#8217;m pretty sure I pay a lot more than that back home.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0that was fun. Apple, please make better charging cables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this morning that the charge cord for my phone was fraying, needing a repair with some electrical tape, which I didn&#8217;t have. So it was time for me to finally set foot in Isla&#8217;s small hardware store. I thought I&#8217;d be able to poke around and so did not do any linguistic research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[815,14,635,814,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mazatlan","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-sinaloa","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}