{"id":3493,"date":"2012-03-10T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T22:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2012-03-10T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T04:27:16","slug":"patrick-number-nein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2012\/03\/10\/patrick-number-nein\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Number Nein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GermanPatrick.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"German Patrick\" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, both Margot &amp; work with German dudes named Patrick, and we&#8217;ve had them over for dinner during recent visits. Finn (logically enough, I suppose) asked, &#8220;Is our cousin Patrick a German?&#8221; This made me devise a little back-and-forth that delights Finn to no end:<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finn (character): &#8220;Patrick, are you a German?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Patrick (in cartoonishly thick, Col. Klink accent): &#8220;Nooo, I am not! <em>Nein nein nein!&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Finn, in disbelief: &#8220;W-wait, you said &#8216;nein&#8217;; you <em>are<\/em> German!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Patrick: &#8220;Nooo, I am American! <em>Moin moin!&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Finn: &#8220;Wait, you said &#8216;moin,&#8217; too! You&#8217;re German!!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Patrick: &#8220;Nooo! I ride with Auntie Laura in an\u00a0<em>Abschleppwagen<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Finn: &#8220;What?? Auntie Laura drives a mouse van [minivan], not an <em>abschleppwagen<\/em>&#8211;you crazy German!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026and so on. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly enough, both Margot &amp; work with German dudes named Patrick, and we&#8217;ve had them over for dinner during recent visits. Finn (logically enough, I suppose) asked, &#8220;Is our cousin Patrick a German?&#8221; This made me devise a little back-and-forth that delights Finn to no end: Finn (character): &#8220;Patrick, are you a German?&#8221; Patrick (in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}