{"id":250,"date":"2001-11-04T00:16:36","date_gmt":"2001-11-04T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=250"},"modified":"2001-11-04T00:16:36","modified_gmt":"2001-11-04T05:16:36","slug":"espressing-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/11\/04\/espressing-oneself\/","title":{"rendered":"Espressing oneself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I simply cannot believe what passes for English from some people.  How many times a day do they have to see a word written out properly before they cease mispronouncing it?  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So he axed me, why ditn&#8217;t I pay for the two expressos for he and I with my Interact?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do they really not listen to what they are saying?  Am I really being pedantic to expect better from people?  Are these rhetorical questions starting to annoy you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I simply cannot believe what passes for English from some people. How many times a day do they have to see a word written out properly before they cease mispronouncing it? So he axed me, why ditn&#8217;t I pay for the two expressos for he and I with my Interact? Do they really not listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}