{"id":1031,"date":"2010-07-02T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2010-07-02T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T15:36:42","slug":"humor-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/humor-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody likes humor and so here\u2019s a small and fun story. You can also listen to it, download the audio and check the main vocabulary. After you read it, were you able to understand the story?<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1031-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/04\/La-donacion.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/04\/La-donacion.mp3\">https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/04\/La-donacion.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/04\/La-donacion.mp3\">Download audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>El donativo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Um empresario millonario y famoso por su taca\u00f1er\u00eda va a una importante fiesta, organizada por una instituci\u00f3n ben\u00e9fica.<br \/>\nUno de los representantes de la instituci\u00f3n, tras intentarlo durante largo rato, lo convence para que aporte una donaci\u00f3n. El millonario, con mala cara, saca un cheque por una importante suma de dinero y se lo da.<br \/>\nA la ma\u00f1ana siguiente suena el tel\u00e9fono de su oficina. Alguien de la instituci\u00f3n ben\u00e9fica le hace notar, amablemente, que se olvid\u00f3 de firmar el cheque que dej\u00f3 el d\u00eda anterior. El millonario dice:<br \/>\n&#8211; No importa, prefiero que mi donativo sea an\u00f3nimo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vocabulary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. empresario \u2013 entrepreneur<br \/>\n2. taca\u00f1er\u00eda \u2013 stinginess<br \/>\n3. tras \u2013 after<br \/>\n4. intentar \u2013 to try<br \/>\n5. durante \u2013 during<br \/>\n6. largo rato \u2013 a long time<br \/>\n7. aportar una donaci\u00f3n \u2013 to make a donation<br \/>\n8. con mala cara \u2013 with an angry face<br \/>\n9. sacar un cheque \u2013 to write a check<br \/>\n10. suma de dinero \u2013 sum of money<br \/>\n11. a la ma\u00f1ana siguiente \u2013 the next morning<br \/>\n12. sonar \u2013 to ring (telephone)<br \/>\n13. oficina \u2013 office<br \/>\n14. hacerle notar a alguien \u2013 to point something out to somebody<br \/>\n15. firmar \u2013 to sign<br \/>\n16. el d\u00eda anterior \u2013 the day before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody likes humor and so here\u2019s a small and fun story. You can also listen to it, download the audio and check the main vocabulary. After you read it, were you able to understand the story? Download audio El donativo Um empresario millonario y famoso por su taca\u00f1er\u00eda va a una importante fiesta, organizada por&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/humor-in-spanish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,81],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audio","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}