{"id":8737,"date":"2019-01-15T11:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:30:39","slug":"shopping-in-wales-whats-afoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8737","title":{"rendered":"Shopping in Wales: what&#8217;s afoot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter user from Swansea has today discovered a strange physical benefit of being able to speak Welsh in Wales, namely the ability to walk to the shops quicker than Anglophones!<\/p>\n<p>That, of course leaves one question unanswered, i.e are bilingual Welsh and English speakers blessed with dual speed perambulation? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/01\/welsh_walk_quicker.png\" alt=\"Photo shows 2 minutes&#039; discrepancy between Welsh and English signage\" width=\"571\" height=\"712\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/01\/welsh_walk_quicker.png 571w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2019\/01\/welsh_walk_quicker-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next time folks, remember to proof the copy for consistency and accuracy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Twitter user from Swansea has today discovered a strange physical benefit of being able to speak Welsh in Wales, namely the ability to walk to the shops quicker than Anglophones! That, of course leaves one question unanswered, i.e are bilingual Welsh and English speakers blessed with dual speed perambulation? \ud83d\ude09 Next time folks, remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[22,35],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8761,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions\/8761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}