{"id":23612,"date":"2018-09-12T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23612"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:51:27","slug":"a-question-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/12\/a-question-for-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question for the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are both Ps in <em>sapphire<\/em> silent?<\/p>\n<p>I can understand the second, which is followed by an H, but the first one is not.<\/p>\n<p>So as far as I&#8217;m concerned, I&#8217;m going to pronounce it sapfire from now on.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I don&#8217;t deal in gemstones or gin much, so I won&#8217;t actually have to do this and make people think I&#8217;m ignorant instead of <em>taking a principled stand for a more obvious pronunciation<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are both Ps in sapphire silent? I can understand the second, which is followed by an H, but the first one is not. So as far as I&#8217;m concerned, I&#8217;m going to pronounce it sapfire from now on. Fortunately, I don&#8217;t deal in gemstones or gin much, so I won&#8217;t actually have to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23614,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions\/23614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}