{"id":6293,"date":"2025-06-16T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/?p=6293"},"modified":"2025-06-16T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T23:23:46","slug":"universal-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2025\/06\/16\/universal-language\/","title":{"rendered":"universal language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ELL student Anna has her parents visiting from China for a few month.\u00a0 Her dad would like to sit outside and play his electric clarinet (more or less), but her husband told him it would bother the neighbors.\u00a0 So Anna asked her Dad to come out and play something.\u00a0 It was quite lovely, and I told her that her husband should shut up, and that the neighbors won&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6294\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-376x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-376x500.jpg 376w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-151x200.jpg 151w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/06\/PXL_20250616_151933585-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ELL student Anna has her parents visiting from China for a few month.\u00a0 Her dad would like to sit outside and play his electric clarinet (more or less), but her husband told him it would bother the neighbors.\u00a0 So Anna asked her Dad to come out and play something.\u00a0 It was quite lovely, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2025\/06\/16\/universal-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">universal language<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6293\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}