{"id":1434,"date":"2012-03-19T20:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2012-03-19T20:41:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T20:41:35","slug":"security-guard-helpful-in-49-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/19\/security-guard-helpful-in-49-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard helpful in 49 languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A security guard in Henley can greet people in 49 languages, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henleystandard.co.uk\/news\/news.php?id=1074078  \">Henley Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>John Bowman works for a security company in Maidenhead and calls himself a \u201cwalking phrase book\u201d. Despite only having been abroad twice, he can greet people in 49 languages and is semi-fluent in seven, including Russian and Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bowman works next to a university, and so comes into contact with people from all over the world. These people teach him some of their language in return for his help, but his leaning secret?<\/p>\n<p>He writes words on paper and recites them until he\u2019s able to do it from memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security guard in Henley can greet people in 49 languages, according to the Henley Standard. John Bowman works for a security company in Maidenhead and calls himself a \u201cwalking phrase book\u201d. Despite only having been abroad twice, he can greet people in 49 languages and is semi-fluent in seven, including Russian and Italian. Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1046],"tags":[123,25,1114],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-speech-2","tag-language-learning","tag-languages","tag-learning-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}