{"id":32408,"date":"2021-09-17T12:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32408"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:49:43","slug":"a-dolly-is-not-a-poupee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32408","title":{"rendered":"A dolly is not a poupee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a small portion of my text conversation with my French pen pal who is helping move a friend out of an apartment today. My wife always tells me not to joke and joking in a Foreign language that you are not good at is especially <em>fraught<\/em>&#8230;&#8230;.fancy word for iffy.<\/p>\n<p>The movers were not well prepared and I said it was too bad I couldn&#8217;t offer her my dolly. That led to her to ask me what &#8220;dolly&#8221; meant and then explained it wasn&#8217;t a poupee (doll)<\/p>\n<p>My texts are in the blue bubbles.<\/strong> My friend&#8217;s (Ma Amie) texts are in white bubbles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51487575935_23fcbdc44f_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ma Amie: &#8220;Do you know what they are called in French?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51485858267_3dcb3d8ef1_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ma Amie: &#8220;That, it is called a devil. I prefer a dolly&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moi: &#8220;Its also called a &#8216;hand truck&#8217; in English&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moi: &#8220;It&#8217;s how Trump got out of the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ma Amie: &#8220;Why. Is it a joke?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51487520880_c446d789de_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moi: &#8220;Oh no. His destination was Hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ma Amie: &#8220;Ah yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moi: &#8220;Its (Hell) also called Mara Lago&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ma Amie: &#8220;He&#8217;s going&#8230;Its in Florida. Not bad. like Hell. <em>winking face emoji.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moi: &#8220;Especially in Summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a small portion of my text conversation with my French pen pal who is helping move a friend out of an apartment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=32408"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32424,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32408\/revisions\/32424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}