{"id":4238,"date":"2018-04-24T21:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2018-04-24T21:06:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:06:33","slug":"my-portuguese-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=4238","title":{"rendered":"My Portuguese Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a small bar halfway between my apartment and the Consulate where I stop several times a week to have a beer on the way home.\u00a0 One of the owners, a young man named Luciano will come and sit with me to learn English and teach me Portuguese.\u00a0 When I told him my 99 year old mother wants to see pictures of the people I meet, he smiled but kept muttering :<em> <span lang=\"pt\">noventa e nove <\/span><\/em><span lang=\"pt\">(ninety nine) over and over again.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0593-e1524614039278.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0593-e1524614039278.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0593-e1524614039278.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dknolte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0593-e1524614039278.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>So, my Portuguese class is sitting at a bar with a young man who is hungry to learn English, while I sit drinking the local beer, hungry to learn Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>This is why Life is so amazing.\u00a0 So enjoyable.\u00a0 So satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>One of Life&#8217;s infinite adventures to follow.\u00a0 Terese knew, and I am learning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a small bar halfway between my apartment and the Consulate where I stop several times a week to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=4238\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tztR-16m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}