{"id":11403,"date":"2007-02-13T19:31:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/02\/mainly-in-the-plane.html"},"modified":"2007-02-13T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T19:31:57","slug":"mainly_in_the_plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/mainly_in_the_plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainly in the Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies*.
\nFarewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain…<\/em><\/p>\n

You know what’s wonderful about Spain?  This<\/a> is the kind of thing you see out your bedroom window<\/a>.  Know what’s less great?  One look is all you get–the rest of the time being booked solid. (If you think I talk a lot here, try 7 hours’ worth yesterday.) You can take the Hyatt out of the boy, but you can’t take the boy out of the Hyatt–literally.<\/p>\n

Still & all, it was great to spend a day chatting with & teaching a boatload of authors & trainers from around Europe.  A bit selfishly, I love the fact that Spanish seems to be less widely studied here than English, German, or French.  For once, my poquito<\/em> of high school Spanish let me avoid feeling like the monolingual ugly American in the room.  In fact, in a jewelry store in Barcelona I observed a German guy awkwardly telling the shopkeeper that he, uh, didn’t speak Spanish.  "Hah hah<\/em>, my Teutonic amigo," I thought, "We’re in the same barco<\/em> now, eh?  M\u00e1s o menos?"<\/em> And now I’m flying home at last, so you can be done with my little travel anecdotes (well, almost; a few photos are yet to come). <\/p>\n

[Apropos of nothing: the flight attendants on Spanair are decked out in rather deviant-looking black leather gloves.  (Spanish gloves of Spanish leather<\/a>?)   You could be forgiven for thinking you’d wandered into a Eurythmics video.] <\/p>\n

*Note: Management reserves the right to substitute a gaggle of pasty software-folk in lieu of said fair ladies.  No warranties expressed or implied.  Vaya con Dios. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies*. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain… You know what’s wonderful about Spain?  This is the kind of thing you see out your bedroom window.  Know what’s less great?  One look is all you get–the rest of the time being booked solid. (If you think I talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}