{"id":15801,"date":"2019-05-09T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15801"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:01:27","slug":"unabashedly-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15801","title":{"rendered":"Unabashedly Curious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to <em>The Washington Post <\/em>on Twitter today, &#8220;Nearly half of white Republicans say it bothers them to hear people speaking foreign languages.&#8221; How strange. I&#8217;m the opposite way. I love foreign languages. When I&#8217;m out and about, I&#8217;m usually not that interested in what the random strangers around me are saying to one another (i.e., I&#8217;m not nosy). But, if I hear a foreign language being spoken, my ears perk up. First I try to figure out what language they&#8217;re speaking, then I try to understand it. If I can&#8217;t understand it, I listen anyway, because I like the music of it. I also gawk at ASL conversations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I rude in this way? Maybe, but I make no apologies. I am unabashedly curious about other languages and cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Washington Post on Twitter today, &#8220;Nearly half of white Republicans say it bothers them to hear people speaking foreign languages.&#8221; How strange. I&#8217;m the opposite way. I love foreign languages. When I&#8217;m out and about, I&#8217;m usually &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=15801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15803,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15801\/revisions\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}