{"id":342,"date":"2011-06-04T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/?p=342"},"modified":"2011-06-04T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T16:09:23","slug":"bloomers-blunders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2011\/06\/04\/bloomers-blunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomers &amp; Blunders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I was visiting with some Brazilian friends (in Portuguese!).\u00a0 We were chatting about a number of things.\u00a0 One of which was what I am hoping Joel will be able to do this summer.\u00a0 So being the chatty person that I am, I start to tell them that I would like Joel to put a sidewalk under our clothes-line\/around the house.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-343\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/files\/2011\/06\/DSCF4051.JPG\" alt=\"This is where I would like to have cement.\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/files\/2011\/06\/DSCF4051.JPG 240w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/files\/2011\/06\/DSCF4051-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is where I would like to have cement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>However, what I really tell them is that I want him to put &#8216;panties&#8217; under the clothes-line\/around the house.<\/p>\n<p>Now you tell me&#8230;don&#8217;t you think &#8220;calcinha&#8221; and &#8220;calcada&#8221; are close?\u00a0 The first is &#8220;panties,&#8221; the second is &#8220;sidewalk.&#8221;\u00a0 And then if those are not close enough, there is also &#8220;calcas,&#8221; which means &#8220;pants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, we all had a good laugh at my blunder. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 And then I told them that what I said was sort-of true&#8230;we already have lots of bloomers around the house&#8230;.I just don&#8217;t like it when they fall in the dirt! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Language learning is a NEVER-ENDING process.\u00a0 Thankfully we can often find the humor in our mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I was visiting with some Brazilian friends (in Portuguese!).\u00a0 We were chatting about a number of things.\u00a0 One of which was what I am hoping Joel will be able to do this summer.\u00a0 So being the chatty person that I am, I start to tell them that I would like Joel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}