{"id":6519,"date":"2012-01-17T15:45:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2012-01-17T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T15:45:55","slug":"sacre-bleu-mitt-romney-speaks-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6519","title":{"rendered":"Sacre bleu! Mitt Romney speaks French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a correspondent who contacted me today, one of the US presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich, has attacked one of the other candidates, Mitt Romney, for speaking French. Not only does he speak French, but there&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xyP2M0DTch8\">video of him on YouTube speaking in French<\/a> (made 10 years ago). What is the world coming to!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Newt Gingrich&#8217;s video in which he critcizes Mitt Romney for, among other things, speaking French:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyFaWhygzjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The correspondent asks &#8220;Do your politicians get THIS crazy on the other side of the pond? Just curious&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed this kind of nonsense here in the UK &#8211; what about in other countries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a correspondent who contacted me today, one of the US presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich, has attacked one of the other candidates, Mitt Romney, for speaking French. Not only does he speak French, but there&#8217;s also a video of him on YouTube speaking in French (made 10 years ago). What is the world coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}