{"id":2493,"date":"2011-03-28T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2011-03-28T16:05:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:05:30","slug":"humor-in-spanish-el-consultor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/humor-in-spanish-el-consultor\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor in Spanish: El Consultor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s practice our reading and vocabulary skills with this funny story about a consultant.<\/p>\n<p>Un joven <em>bien vestido<\/em> (well-dressed), con un <em>coche flamante<\/em> (brand new car) lleno de <em>aparatos <\/em>(devices) electr\u00f3nicos, se acerca a un <em>pastor <\/em>(shepherd) de ovejas y le dice:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Si yo adivino cu\u00e1ntas ovejas tiene, \u00bfusted me regala una?<\/p>\n<p>El pastor mira al muchacho, mira el <em>mont\u00f3n <\/em>(big amount) de ovejas en el <em>pasto <\/em>(pasture).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Est\u00e1 bien \u2013 le dice el <em>campesino <\/em>(peasant).<\/p>\n<p>El joven vuelve a su coche,<em> se pone a hacer<\/em> (starts doing) operaciones en su agenda electr\u00f3nica, <em>conecta <\/em>(turns on) su laptop, busca en Internet, manda mensajes por e-mail, se comunica por <em>tel\u00e9fono m\u00f3vil<\/em> (cell phone), elabora <em>plantillas <\/em>(spreadsheets) en Excel, <em>imprime varios informes<\/em> (prints several reports) en su impresora port\u00e1til, y <em>al rato <\/em>(shortly afterwards) le dice:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tiene 1.493 ovejas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Muy bien, est\u00e1 correct\u00edsimo \u2013 le dice el campesino, puede <em>agarrar la oveja<\/em> (take your sheep).<\/p>\n<p>El joven agarra la oveja y la pone en su coche.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Y ahora, si yo adivino cu\u00e1l es su profesi\u00f3n, \u00bfme <em>devuelve <\/em>(give back) usted la oveja?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Est\u00e1 bien \u2013 <em>contesta <\/em>(answers) el muchacho.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Usted es consultor \u2013 afirma el pastor <em>sin vacilar <\/em>(without hesitating).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00bfC\u00f3mo lo adivin\u00f3? \u2013 pregunta sorprendido el muchacho.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fue f\u00e1cil. Primero, porque usted lleg\u00f3 aqu\u00ed sin que nadie lo llame. Segundo, porque me <em>cobr\u00f3 <\/em>(charged) <em>honorarios <\/em>(fees) para decirme lo que yo ya sab\u00eda. Y tercero, porque se ve que no entiende nada de mi negocio: <em>se llev\u00f3<\/em> (you took) a mi perro\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s practice our reading and vocabulary skills with this funny story about a consultant. Un joven bien vestido (well-dressed), con un coche flamante (brand new car) lleno de aparatos (devices) electr\u00f3nicos, se acerca a un pastor (shepherd) de ovejas y le dice: &#8211; Si yo adivino cu\u00e1ntas ovejas tiene, \u00bfusted me regala una? El pastor&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/humor-in-spanish-el-consultor\/\">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":[3],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}