{"id":30,"date":"2003-10-09T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T09:28:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-09T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T09:28:50","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Hello, do you speak English?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having fun with the new MP3 player.  Have basically figured out how to use all the functions, with the &#8220;help&#8221; of the Korean-English instruction booklet.  I defy anyone to claim that this was even <i>looked at<\/i> by anyone whose first language is English.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly this can be a little frustrating, but sometimes it is amusing.  For example, there is a section in the booklet about the headphones.  The following statement should be read in an angry Far-Eastern accent, I think, for fullest effect.  Or perhaps something like the bloke from the game show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/entertainment\/tv\/microsites\/B\/banzai_new\/index.html\">Banzai<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Headphones &#8211; wear them properly!  L is Left and R is Right!&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having fun with the new MP3 player. Have basically figured out how to use all the functions, with the &#8220;help&#8221; of the Korean-English instruction booklet. I defy anyone to claim that this was even looked at by anyone whose first language is English. Mostly this can be a little frustrating, but sometimes it is amusing&#8230;.&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=30\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}