{"id":46,"date":"2011-09-19T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2012-09-28T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:57:56","slug":"more-good-wine-and-im-learning-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2011\/09\/more-good-wine-and-im-learning-french\/","title":{"rendered":"More good wine and I&#8217;m learning French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning French! \u00a0I&#8217;ve been learning French for three weeks now (self taught, can&#8217;t be arsed with formal lessons) and I&#8217;ve gone quickly from zero French to &#8216;speaking French incredibly badly&#8217;, which in my opinion is pretty damned good.<\/p>\n<p>My goal, as it goes, is to learn to speak French pretty badly by\u00a0February\u00a02012, which is the date of my next visit.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many great resources on the web that pretty much cover all you need to know. \u00a0My Kindle is also coming in handy as I can send myself articles to translate while on the way to work. \u00a0It&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On to the wine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47\" title=\"Pere et Fils by Laurent Miquel \" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/pere-93x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pere et Fils by Laurent Miquel \" width=\"93\" height=\"300\" \/>I bought a bottle of <strong>&#8216;Pere et Fils&#8217;<\/strong> by <strong>Laurent Miquel <\/strong>(Languedoc, naturally) from the wine merchants. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t talk to anyone this time, just wandered about until I found a bottle at under \u00a310. \u00a0This was was \u00a38.99 which is more than I&#8217;ve ever spent on a bottle of wine.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival home, I uncorked the bottle and let it sit for half an hour. \u00a0I put on some Dexter Gordon and took my first sip. \u00a0Ohhh, it was nice. \u00a0Smooth and deep and rich. \u00a0Not too fruity. \u00a0Hmmm, it really is good.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Marks out of ten<\/strong>: 7.5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buy again?<\/strong>: Yeah<\/li>\n<li><strong>Price<\/strong>: \u00a38.99<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurent-miquel.com\/us\/index.html\">Website of vineyard<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh yeah, you probably wanna know about that Dexter Gordon chap I listened to while trying out the vino. \u00a0Here yah go:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Msqw94XfKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning French! \u00a0I&#8217;ve been learning French for three weeks now (self taught, can&#8217;t be arsed with formal lessons) and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}