{"id":527,"date":"2004-10-29T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-29T18:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T00:45:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T04:45:49","slug":"whats-the-big-idear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/whats-the-big-idear\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the big idear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get this straight: I&#8217;ve spent almost all of my life living in New Hampshire, and the state that comes in second after that one is Massachusetts.  So while I consider that my own accent is existant but mild, my ears are accustomed to your standard Boston, North Shore, Down East, etc. accents.  I might even go so far as to describe some of them as quaint, charming or pleasant.  They are certainly familiar.<\/p>\n<p>But there is NOTHING that grates on my nerves more than the ridiculous habit of people to attach an &#8216;r&#8217; sound to the end of a word where there should not be one. The most commonly offended words being &#8216;area&#8217; and &#8216;idea&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I was so very very sorry to hear John Kerry saying idear all over the place in his speeches.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m willing to sacrifice my nerves to put up with it for four years, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>ObLink: I was reminded I hadn&#8217;t ranted about this in a semi-permanent way by <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2108859\/\">this amusing Slate article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s get this straight: I&#8217;ve spent almost all of my life living in New Hampshire, and the state that comes in second after that one is Massachusetts. So while I consider that my own accent is existant but mild, my ears are accustomed to your standard Boston, North Shore, Down East, etc. accents. I might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}