{"id":186,"date":"2017-05-07T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/07\/master-linguist\/"},"modified":"2017-05-07T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T21:36:00","slug":"master-linguist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/07\/master-linguist\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Linguist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ve developed a bit of a bad habit as of late.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;Whenever I&#8217;ve caught one of the Torres children using an idiom I find myself inquiring on whether they really know its meaning.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I don&#8217;t want them to play things by ear. Saying random things not knowing their meaning is for the birds. So I rather hear it from the horse&#8217;s mouth if they really know the meaning. It&#8217;s my goal that before I kick the bucket to teach them the fun and wonder of language. So as a parent I am taking the bull by the horns by quizzing and teaching. One may even said I&#8217;m taking care of two birds with one stone.<o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve developed a bit of a bad habit as of late. &nbsp;Whenever I&#8217;ve caught one of the Torres children using an idiom I find myself inquiring on whether they really know its meaning.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t want them to play things by ear. Saying random things not knowing their meaning is for the birds. So I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/07\/master-linguist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Master Linguist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,124,10,125,594,595,596],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}