{"id":672,"date":"2005-07-21T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2005-07-21T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T20:44:27","slug":"dprk-discovers-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/dprk-discovers-the-english-language\/","title":{"rendered":"DPRK Discovers the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-english21jul21,1,1910165,print.story\">LA  Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>Teacher: Han Il Nam, how do you spell the word &#8220;revolution&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Student A: R-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: Very good, thank you. Sit down. Ri Chol Su. What&#8217;s the Korean for &#8220;revolution&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Student B: Hyekmyeng.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: Fine, thank you. Have you any questions?<\/p>\n<p>Student C: No questions.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: Well, Kim In Su, what do you learn English for?<\/p>\n<p>Student D: For our revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher: That&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s true that we learn English for our revolution.<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Times: Teacher: Han Il Nam, how do you spell the word &#8220;revolution&#8221;? Student A: R-e-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n. Teacher: Very good, thank you. Sit down. Ri Chol Su. What&#8217;s the Korean for &#8220;revolution&#8221;? Student B: Hyekmyeng. Teacher: Fine, thank you. Have you any questions? Student C: No questions. Teacher: Well, Kim In Su, what do you learn English for? Student D: For our revolution. Teacher: That&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s true that we learn English for our revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-aQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}