{"id":5855,"date":"2010-04-07T07:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:57:35","slug":"why-do-the-rubes-fear-the-terminal-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/why-do-the-rubes-fear-the-terminal-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do The Rubes Fear The Terminal G?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By that, I mean why do they all drop the Gs at the end of their gerunds and present participles?  Or is that just something that happens in newspaper stories like this one: <a href=\"http:\/\/suburbanjournals.stltoday.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/06\/stcharles\/news\/0407stc-pokin0.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Gun totin&#8217; women teach firearm safety at church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note the first quote, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; Packin&#8217; heat in the choir loft. I love it! &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, by dropping those Gs and going with things like <em>gun-totin&#8217;<\/em>, I guess we&#8217;re supposed to not respect the women, The Other who carries guns for protection.  Unfortunately, the tactic makes me respect the newspapermen less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By that, I mean why do they all drop the Gs at the end of their gerunds and present participles? Or is that just something that happens in newspaper stories like this one: Gun totin&#8217; women teach firearm safety at church. Note the first quote, too: &#8221; Packin&#8217; heat in the choir loft. I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}