{"id":374,"date":"2005-03-08T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2005-03-08T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T01:40:08","slug":"i-speak-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"I Speak English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I propose that <b>British English<\/b>, or <b>The Queen&#8217;s English<\/b> as the British would call it, or <b>English (UK)<\/b> as Microsoft would call it, be called, simply, <b>British<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>No, not <b>Bree-teesh<\/b>, <b>Brit-eesh<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Why not the other way around? If you are a stranger in a strange land and you ask, &#8220;<i>Do you speak American?<\/i>&#8221; you might just get massively destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I propose that British English, or The Queen&#8217;s English as the British would call it, or English (UK) as Microsoft would call it, be called, simply, British. No, not Bree-teesh, Brit-eesh. Why not the other way around? If you are a stranger in a strange land and you ask, &#8220;Do you speak American?&#8221; you might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}