{"id":361,"date":"2009-04-01T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T13:25:58","slug":"day-32-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/day-32-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 32&#8211;April Fool&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the French like April Fool&#8217;s Day. Supposedly there&#8217;s something in the newspapers that is\u00a0<em>faux\u00a0<\/em>and the trick is to discern what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Have a much tougher French teacher this month.<\/p>\n<p>Three of our Zarnett friends were here today and we enjoyed a very nice lunch with them at Le Gorille Blanc and, afterwards, at Caf\u00e9 de la Mairie where several of us were dumped on by a pigeon. Ah, springtime in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>And our friend Charnois has just arrived.<\/p>\n<p>And,\u00a0<em>finalement<\/em>, we got to talk to Jessica by Skype. How does Skype make money? Free call from Ottawa to Paris for 15 minutes, with video no less.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-361 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/day-32-april-fools-day\/128_458\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/128_458-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-363\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-363'>\n\t\t\t\tOne very pretty dish from Le Gorille Blanc.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/day-32-april-fools-day\/128_459\/'><img width=\"190\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/128_459-190x140.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-364\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-364'>\n\t\t\t\tAt the cafe.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the French like April Fool&#8217;s Day. Supposedly there&#8217;s something in the newspapers that is\u00a0faux\u00a0and the trick is to discern what it is. Have a much tougher French teacher this month. Three of our Zarnett friends were here today and we enjoyed a very nice lunch with them at Le Gorille Blanc and, afterwards, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forbesgrant.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}