{"id":21780,"date":"2013-08-06T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=21780"},"modified":"2013-08-06T18:39:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:39:54","slug":"france-binge-drinking-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/08\/06\/france-binge-drinking-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Smashing French Language Police (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.fr\/20130729\/france-creates-a-word-for-binge-drinking\">French are at it again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Those Smashing French Language Police (2-Verse Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Le Binge Drinking&#8217;s<\/em>&#8221; been outlawed in France.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re maintaining a very strict stance&#8211;<br \/>\nNot against all that drinking.<br \/>\nNo! What were you thinking?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s their &#8220;<em>dump English verbiage<\/em>&#8221; dance.<\/p>\n<p>A new phrase that has Frenchified grace<br \/>\nMust henceforth be used to replace<br \/>\nSuch Anglicized  words,<br \/>\nDiscarded like turds:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Beuverie express&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; drink at fast pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French are at it again: Those Smashing French Language Police (2-Verse Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane &#8220;Le Binge Drinking&#8217;s&#8221; been outlawed in France. They&#8217;re maintaining a very strict stance&#8211; Not against all that drinking. No! What were you thinking? It&#8217;s their &#8220;dump English verbiage&#8221; dance. A new phrase that has Frenchified grace Must henceforth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,49,41,53,42],"tags":[1375,3774,3773,2784,3154,3776,3152,3777,3775,427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21780"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21788,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780\/revisions\/21788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}