{"id":70974,"date":"2019-04-05T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70974"},"modified":"2019-04-05T05:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:38:19","slug":"the-good-boor-stood-aloof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70974","title":{"rendered":"The Moody Boor Stood Bloodily Aloof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This winter, the news media ran stories about ice dams causing damage to the roof.&nbsp; How do you pronounce the word \u201croof?\u201d&nbsp; Why don\u2019t all -oo- words sound alike?&nbsp; Try this sentence:<br>While the goofy cook chewed a root and doodled in a book on the roof, a pooch looked at a boot and woofed as a kook took good food out the door.<br>No wonder foreigners have such a hard time with English.<br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>True.  English is tough enough to plough through, though,  without that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, the news media ran stories about ice dams causing damage to the roof.&nbsp; How do you pronounce the word \u201croof?\u201d&nbsp; Why don\u2019t all -oo- words sound alike?&nbsp; Try this sentence:While the goofy cook chewed a root and doodled in a book on the roof, a pooch looked at a boot and woofed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70990,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70974\/revisions\/70990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}