{"id":36453,"date":"2005-02-14T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/02\/14\/how-to-act-like-you-know-chinese-even-though-you-dont\/"},"modified":"2005-02-14T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T07:01:00","slug":"how-to-act-like-you-know-chinese-even-though-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050214-00\/?p=36453","title":{"rendered":"How to act like you know Chinese even though you don't"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was riding in a car with a friend when a Chinese pop album<\/a> spun up on the CD. I made a remark about the song, and my friend, knowing that I was studying Mandarin, asked me, “Do you know what she’s singing about?”\n I immediately replied, “She’s singing about love.”\n “Wow,” my friend responded. “Your Chinese is quite good.”\n “Nope,” I said. “But all pop songs are about love.”<\/p>\n

If somebody asks you what a pop song is about, you can answer “love”, and you’ve got a very high chance of being correct. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was riding in a car with a friend when a Chinese pop album spun up on the CD. I made a remark about the song, and my friend, knowing that I was studying Mandarin, asked me, “Do you know what she’s singing about?” I immediately replied, “She’s singing about love.” “Wow,” my friend responded. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[136,103],"class_list":["post-36453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-excursions-into-east-asian-pop-music","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

I was riding in a car with a friend when a Chinese pop album spun up on the CD. I made a remark about the song, and my friend, knowing that I was studying Mandarin, asked me, “Do you know what she’s singing about?” I immediately replied, “She’s singing about love.” “Wow,” my friend responded. […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}