{"id":114,"date":"2007-01-11T17:07:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T23:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blue-monster.ath.cx\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-01-28T12:51:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T18:51:43","slug":"jargon-may-make-you-feel-smart-but-proper-pronunciation-will-make-you-sound-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Jargon may make you feel smart, but proper pronunciation will make you sound smart."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I were to write a letter to President Bush today about his address from last evening, this is how it would read.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear President Bush,<\/p>\n<p>If you can use phrases like &#8220;sectarian <strike>onclaves<\/strike> enclaves&#8221; then you can learn to pronounce &#8220;nuclear&#8221; correctly for once in your life. Maybe you could have your dad show you?<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nAn American<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he could have his dad read it to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I were to write a letter to President Bush today about his address from last evening, this is how it would read. Dear President Bush, If you can use phrases like &#8220;sectarian onclaves enclaves&#8221; then you can learn to pronounce &#8220;nuclear&#8221; correctly for once in your life. Maybe you could have your dad show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jargon may make you feel smart, but proper pronunciation will make you sound smart.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}