{"id":18305,"date":"1999-04-11T23:29:36","date_gmt":"1999-04-11T12:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter-259134401340923904-post"},"modified":"1999-04-11T23:29:36","modified_gmt":"1999-04-11T12:29:36","slug":"musiconhold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=18305","title":{"rendered":"Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions &#8211; all on a sesame seed bun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Kaohsiung, I was walking down the street. I decided to stop off for lunch in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com.tw\/\">MacDonalds<\/a>. I could see they had a special where if you said their jingle, in Chinese, you would get the special. I can&#8217;t remember what the special was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The woman a the counter slid the flyer over to me and pointed to the text I needed to say. I said, I could not read it. I only knew about two of the characters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She then said the first third. I repeated it. Clearly successfully, because she then said the next third. Again I repeated it. She then said the last third. I had to hesitate while I arranged the words in my head. Everyone behind the counter was now watching and willing me on. After the pause I said the third and last part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There were many smiles and quiet mirth. I got the special and headed off up stairs to eat my lunch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If any of you know how to write the jingle in Taiwanese Chinese, please add it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kaohsiung, I was walking down the street. I decided to stop off for lunch in MacDonalds. I could see[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1097,1905,2176,3615],"class_list":["post-18305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-langauge-ramblings","tag-discount","tag-jingle","tag-macdonalds","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}