{"id":34547,"date":"2025-11-12T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34547"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:23:58","slug":"wherein-brian-j-s-book-learning-impedes-his-poetin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/12\/wherein-brian-j-s-book-learning-impedes-his-poetin\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Brian J.&#8217;s Book Learnin&#8217; Impedes His Poetin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have started tinkering with a set of words on a page, and I was trying out rhythms, and I came to a bit of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>juggling<\/em>.  Is it two syllables or three?<\/p>\n<p>YouTube offers a variety of videos just saying the word.  Try this one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8snRsvQwiM?si=0BS6AaKH7m4nK7RX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Still not sure.  Is it JUG-gling?  That&#8217;s what the letters indicate, but the combination of sounds together makes it sound more like JUG-gul-ING, ainna?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure I have mentioned that <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/16\/for-consistency\/\" target=\"_new\">I pronounce words I learned from reading<\/a> incorrectly.  I have to wonder how many of my poems are actually incorrectly stressed when someone smarter than me reads them because they know the words from the sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Ah!  Therein is the bit of humor.  <em>Nobody at all reads them<\/em>.  So my ignorance remains safely hidden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have started tinkering with a set of words on a page, and I was trying out rhythms, and I came to a bit of an issue. The word juggling. Is it two syllables or three? YouTube offers a variety of videos just saying the word. Try this one: Still not sure. Is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547","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=34547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34549,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions\/34549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}