{"id":528,"date":"2026-02-28T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:07:51","slug":"washington-state-couple-seeks-licensing-help-in-spanish-they-get-a-recorded-message-in-accented-english-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Washington state couple seeks licensing help in Spanish. They get a recorded message in accented English instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2026\/02\/27\/kitsap-couple-spanish-licensing-message\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Washington state couple seeks licensing help in Spanish. They get a recorded message in accented English instead\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opb-opb-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com\/resizer\/v2\/PKMHCIQCIJGWDJCEK3HMXQDUKQ.jpg?auth=aa7b05d1955d073782ebe7be7883789fd9a168e56a517be73862882bb4d03ad5&amp;width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;focal=1513%2C938\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.opb.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Washington state couple seeks licensing help in Spanish. They get a recorded message in accented English instead<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Maya Edwards, who resides in Kitsap County, posted a video on TikTok last week that has since received more than 1.8 million views and 284,000 likes. The video shows the couple calling the department\u2019s Spanish self-service menu, shocked over what they heard.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}