{"id":24803,"date":"2018-04-23T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24803"},"modified":"2018-04-23T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T16:54:48","slug":"france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24803","title":{"rendered":"France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/818\/40699359245_6de9b5158a_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is my bookcase of French related books that I&#8217;m working on. <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?cat=128\">I posted a similar picture<\/a> of the books on China last year. It was one of a number of posts to my <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?cat=128\">&#8220;China&#8221; category<\/a>. I have begun a similar category on<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?cat=131\"> France<\/a> which this post is now a part of.<\/p>\n<p>My (now) seven loyal readers will recall that it was my Grandfather&#8217;s exploits in France that was the primary driver for this trip. I have in fact polished off a couple books on that subject in the past seven or eight months. But that reading has led to a more intense interest in the nation which gave us our liberty and for which we have twice returned the favor.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading Ina Caro&#8217;s book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/paris-to-the-past-by-ina-caro\/2011\/06\/13\/AGCXyVjH_story.html?noredirect=on&#038;utm_term=.b7d1aec80cce\">The Road from the Past<\/a>&#8221; to Claudia. (NOTE the preceding link is to a very unflattering WaPo review of the book which was, <em>the book that is<\/em>, just what I hoped it would be). Shortly afterward we decided to watch the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1135503\/\">Julie and Julia<\/a> which was a charming little movie about a writer who set out to and succeeded in cooking all 524 recipies in Julia&#8217;s Childs first book on French Cooking in one year&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting more about France as I go along. I&#8217;ve already made some discoveries I hadn&#8217;t expected. For instance I have always thought of English as a Germanic language. But Britain and France&#8217;s long entanglement left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/How-much-English-is-borrowed-derived-from-French\">about one third<\/a> of our vocabulary coming from the frogs. I must admit that has made it much easier for me to pick up their lingo as I chip away at it every day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently on a 54 days in a row tear studying it. I started five months ago and have about four more months to go by which time I hope too have added a few brain cells upstairs. In fact, I think I&#8217;ll add a few more right now. Maybe I&#8217;ll edit this later or peut \u00eatre pas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my bookcase of French related books that I&#8217;m working on. I posted a similar picture of the books on China last year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,131,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24803"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24814,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24803\/revisions\/24814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}