{"id":736,"date":"2004-03-08T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2018-08-10T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T15:41:20","slug":"736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/08\/736\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lemay Accent at the Wrong Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis denizens will tell you about the peculiar South St. Louis (County) accent that adds terminal Rs to non-terminal syllables, which turn <i>wash<\/i> into <i><b>warsh<\/i><\/b> and <i>toilet<\/i> into <b><i>torlet<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>So as I was in Lemay this morning, speaking with an aunt, she mentioned coming out of retirement to earn a few extra dollars.  &#8220;But I don&#8217;t want another <b>orffice<\/b> job,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>We in your family salute your decision, dear.  Be forewarned we shall remind you of this decision into the unforeseeable future to make sure your commitment remains.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis denizens will tell you about the peculiar South St. Louis (County) accent that adds terminal Rs to non-terminal syllables, which turn wash into warsh and toilet into torlet. So as I was in Lemay this morning, speaking with an aunt, she mentioned coming out of retirement to earn a few extra dollars. &#8220;But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22710,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/22710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}