{"id":365,"date":"2019-09-21T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:39:55","slug":"my-friends-and-colleagues-please-excuse-my-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/21\/my-friends-and-colleagues-please-excuse-my-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"My friends and colleagues, please excuse my Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI&#8217;ve\nnever published anything in this language except on LinkedIn and on my blog. I\ntaught myself Spanish when I was about 15 years old using the book &#8220;Teach\nYourself Spanish&#8221;.&nbsp; Then, at the\nuniversity in Taiwan, I met the Jesuit priest from Spain, Father Marcelino\nAndreu, who became my mentor.&nbsp; I was able\nto talk with him and he corrected my writings during my college years.&nbsp; The Spanish language I have learned was that\nof the 1950s. I hope you don&#8217;t find it too strange, although I&#8217;ve been reading El\nPa\u00eds and BBC World in recent years.&nbsp; Please\nread what I have written about P. Marcelino in my book &#8220;My Life &amp;\nRollercoaster Career&#8221; (p. 68-69). Thank you!&nbsp; \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never published anything in this language except on LinkedIn and on my blog. I taught myself Spanish when I was about 15 years old using the book &#8220;Teach Yourself Spanish&#8221;.&nbsp; Then, at the university in Taiwan, I met the Jesuit priest from Spain, Father Marcelino Andreu, who became my mentor.&nbsp; I was able to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/21\/my-friends-and-colleagues-please-excuse-my-spanish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My friends and colleagues, please excuse my Spanish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayslcorp.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}