{"id":920,"date":"2007-11-07T11:54:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2007-11-07T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T19:54:52","slug":"change-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Change Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my beloved co-workers is a Peruvian.  She has given me great joy with her idioms and dialectic cursing and she doesn&#8217;t mind when I appropriate and modify her language.  For example, she uses <a href=\"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=732\"> <i>carajo!<\/i><\/a> for very special idiots, but I added the modifier (?) <i>hombre<\/i> because I think it makes it more throaty and impactful and she hasn&#8217;t hit me yet.  I even made one up, <i>The dog has no teeth!<\/i> to describe our work environment and it actually sounds better in English than in Spanish so I win!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some expressions of hers that I love:<\/p>\n<p><i>He thinks he&#8217;s the last Coke in the desert!<\/i><br \/>\n<i>She walks like she lost her horse <\/i><br \/>\n<i>Change your face!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This last one means get over yourself, cheer up, toss that bad attitude into the back alley with the sewer rats and don&#8217;t come back to me until you can smile a little.<\/p>\n<p>After a pretty rough start this morning (think: 1977 Fiat that&#8217;s been parked outside in Saskatchewan for 3 years) I took the opportunity to change my face while I sat on the very empty bus and looked out the window.  Almost noon and my new face hasn&#8217;t slipped yet.<\/p>\n<p>Also I thought of another good reason to post every day in November: I am in the 900s of posts now and when I get to 1,000 I get chocolate cake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my beloved co-workers is a Peruvian. She has given me great joy with her idioms and dialectic cursing and she doesn&#8217;t mind when I appropriate and modify her language. For example, she uses carajo! for very special idiots, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}