{"id":1741,"date":"2007-12-10T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2008-03-17T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:56:18","slug":"%e2%80%9c%c2%bfpor-que-no-te-callas%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 Hugo no callan?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if\u00a0it&#8217;s the language geek in me that gets the bigger kick over <a href=\"http:\/\/ginacobb.typepad.com\/gina_cobb\/2007\/12\/hugo-chavez-ref.html\">this story<\/a>\u00a0about Hugo Chavez&#8217; meeting with Spain&#8217;s king Juan Carlos&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no te callas?\u201d\u2014or \u201cwhy don\u2019t you shut up?\u201d Adding insult to injury, King Juan Carlos used the informal form of address, which is the sort of language one would use for a child. The line has become famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world, being used in everything from mobile phone ringtones to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Por+que+to+no+callas&#038;search=Search\"><font color=\"#003366\">numerous YouTube videos<\/font><\/a>. By publicly scolding Ch\u00e1vez, King Juan Carlos essentially put him in his place, turning him from the Bolivarian Revolutionary to just another gasbag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0&#8230;or the guy who loves freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, kudos to King Juan Carlos.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jayreding.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/03\/venezuela-to-chavez-por-que-tu-no-callas\/\">Jay Reding<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(And after 27 years, I make no promises whatsoever about my Spanish grammar&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if\u00a0it&#8217;s the language geek in me that gets the bigger kick over this story\u00a0about Hugo Chavez&#8217; meeting with Spain&#8217;s king Juan Carlos&#8230;\u00a0 \u201c\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 no te callas?\u201d\u2014or \u201cwhy don\u2019t you shut up?\u201d Adding insult to injury, King Juan Carlos used the informal form of address, which is the sort of language one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}