{"id":36778,"date":"2019-05-18T20:46:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=36778"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T09:43:09","slug":"a-new-york-cabbie-on-french-numbering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2019\/05\/18\/a-new-york-cabbie-on-french-numbering\/","title":{"rendered":"A New York cabbie on French numbering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a certain stage in our passage through life&#8217;s rich tapestry, we get to realise a few things. One, everybody&#8217;s nuts. (Most of us can more or less feign sanity till we get home to our nearest and so called dearest. Some don&#8217;t even manage that.)<\/p>\n<p>Two, if we travel, we see that the madness, though universal, finds culturally specific forms of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Three, a particularly French form is to complicate everything, as this NYC cabbie has discovered &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rmBqIFeHN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a certain stage in our passage through life&#8217;s rich tapestry, we get to realise a few things. One, everybody&#8217;s nuts. (Most of us can more or less feign sanity till we get home to our nearest and so called &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2019\/05\/18\/a-new-york-cabbie-on-french-numbering\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}