{"id":184,"date":"2007-01-14T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/184"},"modified":"2007-01-14T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T22:06:20","slug":"ich-bin-amerikaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Ich bin Amerikaner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone casually jokes about how when an American goes to Europe they should say &#8220;Ich komme aus Kanada.&#8221; Doing so may prevent a confrontation with a local who is upset with the oh&#8230; I don&#8217;t know&#8230; one or two things that the current US administration has done. I refuse to do this. Rather than say I am from Canada I have come up with some clever alternatives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ich komme aus dem Bauch meiner Mutti. &#8211; I come from my mommy&#8217;s tummy.<\/li>\n<li>Ich komme aus einem Land hinunter, wo Bier flie\u00dfen und M\u00e4nner kotzen. K\u00f6nnten Sie k\u00f6nnten Sie den Donner h\u00f6ren? Sie sollen rennen! Sie sollen Decke nehmen! &#8211; I come from a land down under, where beer does flow and men chunder. Can&#8217;t you hear, can&#8217;t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover. : Men at Work &#8211; &#8220;Land Down Under&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ich komme aus dem kalten Staat Alaska. Es ist wie Kanada. &#8211; I come from the cold state of Alaska. It is like Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS: Did you know that in the local Umg\u00e4ngsprache (colloquial dialect) for Berlin, President JFK&#8217;s &#8220;Ich bin ein Berliner&#8221; quote meant that he said he was a jelly doughnut. &#8220;Ich bin Berliner&#8221; would have been the appropriate translation, but the locals all knew what he meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone casually jokes about how when an American goes to Europe they should say &#8220;Ich komme aus Kanada.&#8221; Doing so may prevent a confrontation with a local who is upset with the oh&#8230; I don&#8217;t know&#8230; one or two things that the current US administration has done. I refuse to do this. Rather than say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ich bin Amerikaner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deutsch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}