{"id":397,"date":"2006-08-18T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2006-09-18T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:10:15","slug":"oz-first-team-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Oz: First team dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner tonight was in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourrestaurants.com.au\/guide\/?action=venue&#038;venue_url=vivace\">Vivace<\/a>, an Italian restaurant on Bennett Street.  I enjoyed a Caesar salad con pollo followed by espresso. It seems that Caesar salad is the same in Spanish, English and Italian.<\/p>\n<p>I became a tiramisu salesman &#8211; I noted that the owner had placed his tiramisu at the back of the display cabinet.  My careful marketing skills came in to play: &#8220;move them to the front and you&#8217;ll sell more&#8221;&#8230;within seconds of him moving them forwards, he sold five portions.  I&#8217;m in the wrong job, marketers beware, I&#8217;m coming to get ya.<\/p>\n<p>I sat myself at the head of the table, through luck more than anything else.&nbsp; Oscar, from Chile, was sat next to me. Oscar and I spent much of the dinner exchanging language tips: he gave me a lot of Spanish tips and I gave him English tips (amazing I know, but hey, people change).  Katya sat next to Oscar &#8211; she is from Las Republica Dominica and as such also &#8220;habla espa\u00f1ol&#8221;.  This is the way to learn the language &#8211; Oscar actually spent the bulk of the weekend sorting out each our various language concerns.  <\/p>\n<p>Bizarre, there we were sitting in an Italian restaurant, practicing Spanish&#8230;and English &#8211; it worked both ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinner tonight was in Vivace, an Italian restaurant on Bennett Street. I enjoyed a Caesar salad con pollo followed by espresso. It seems that Caesar salad is the same in Spanish, English and Italian. I became a tiramisu salesman &#8211; I noted that the owner had placed his tiramisu at the back of the display &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oz: First team dinner<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}