{"id":63645,"date":"2018-05-04T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63645"},"modified":"2018-05-04T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:42:58","slug":"french-president-termed-australian-pms-wife-as-delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63645","title":{"rendered":"French President termed Australian PM\u2019s wife as \u201cdelicious\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canberra, May 4 (TNS): <\/strong>French President Emmanuel Macron committed a rather delicious faux pas that left his Australian audience scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Macron has been in the country on a diplomatic trip, discussing weighty issues like climate change and defence.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s immaculate English, however, failed him momentarily as he thanked PM Malcolm Turnbull.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you and your \u201cdelicious\u201d wife for your warm welcome, the perfect organisation of this trip,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to you and Lucy, thank you very much, Mr Prime Minister,&#8221; he added, before the two men shook hands.<\/p>\n<p>The French president&#8217;s command of English is considered to be excellent. A week before Wednesday&#8217;s slip-up, he addressed the US Congress in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>His speech &#8211; including a few puns and jokes &#8211; earned him a standing ovation and the praise of many on social media for his eloquence.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: BBC<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Canberra, May 4 (TNS): French President Emmanuel Macron committed a rather delicious faux pas that left his Australian audience scratching their heads. Macron has been in the country on a diplomatic trip, discussing weighty issues like climate change and defence. The president&#8217;s immaculate English, however, failed him momentarily as he thanked PM Malcolm Turnbull. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63647,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63645\/revisions\/63647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}