{"id":331,"date":"2010-03-20T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-03-20T18:55:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:55:39","slug":"laughing-over-lemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2010\/03\/20\/laughing-over-lemons\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughing over lemons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/19\/laughing-over-lemons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-333\" src=\"http:\/\/institutocervanteslondon.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/driving-over-lemons.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Stewart\" width=\"97\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>WE DON\u2019T do stand-up comedy at the <span style=\"color:#ff0000\"><strong>Instituto Cervantes<\/strong><\/span>, we don\u2019t even do sit-down comedy very often, but last night\u2019s audience with <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Chris<\/span> \u2018Driving Over Lemons\u2019 <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Stewart<\/span> was the funniest evening <strong>LondonSpanish<\/strong> has had for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Chris proved he is just as witty a speaker as he is a writer, and another packed house was soon laughing along as he recounted his latest adventures and embarrassments in the Alpujarras. Like the rest of Andalusia, the area has seen rainfall of epic proportions in the past few months, and Chris told how a flood swept away one of its many ham-curing houses.<\/p>\n<p>Locals gathered downstream hoping to salvage some of the contents as they were washed up \u2013 only to find the meat had been smashed away by the torrent and just bones remained. As Chris would later point out, mountain people are a little, um, different.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Londonspanish.wordpress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/19\/laughing-over-lemons\/\" target=\"_blank\">(Read more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F20%2Flaughing-over-lemons%2F&amp;linkname=Laughing%20over%20lemons\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_256_24.png\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE DON\u2019T do stand-up comedy at the Instituto Cervantes, we don\u2019t even do sit-down comedy very often, but last night\u2019s audience with Chris \u2018Driving Over Lemons\u2019 Stewart was the funniest evening LondonSpanish has had for some time. Chris proved he is just as witty a speaker as he is a writer, and another packed house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9,10,12,73,49,67],"tags":[84,96,1202,104],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}