{"id":651,"date":"2011-07-30T08:36:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T12:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2015-08-29T01:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T05:25:41","slug":"american-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/american-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"American-Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three years ago, I was in Paris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I saw beautiful things. Went to beautiful places. Had photoshoots in the Louvre, tried <em>escargots<\/em> (!), <a href=\"http:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/so-secretly-it-made-my-day-but\/\" target=\"_blank\">had my ego boosted by trilingual Frenchmen<\/a>, walked (ran, actually) down all <a href=\"http:\/\/equator.eftours.com\/2009\/05\/fact-eiffel-steps.html\">1,665 steps of the Eiffel Tower<\/a>, and saw this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/american-french-speak3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"652\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/american-french-speak\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/american-french-speak3.jpg?fit=408%2C598&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"408,598\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"american-french-speak\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/american-french-speak3.jpg?fit=408%2C598&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-652\" title=\"american-french-speak\" src=\"http:\/\/abitcoquettish.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/american-french-speak.jpg?resize=450%2C660\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1023481\/\">Step Up 2<\/a><\/em>, in American-Speak. 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