{"id":2716,"date":"2013-11-15T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2013-11-15T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T16:46:03","slug":"english-smeglish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/english-smeglish\/","title":{"rendered":"English Smeglish&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s just call this a &#8220;filler&#8221; Post&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m busy getting ready to head to the Great Northwest and I&#8217;m trying to keep my promise to Post more&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0REMEMBER, Uncle MR wants you to Post too! (homage to the old WWII recruitment poster, &#8220;Uncle Sam Wants You!&#8221;)&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I was typing up a recent Post at my normal breakneck speed (I did take typing in High School and did excellent, although, at the time, I thought it was a worthless effort), and I made a goof, which got me to thinking ( that&#8217;s always trouble)&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Okay, Okay, to the point of the whole thing&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s the Joke (?) &#8211; Maybe you&#8217;ll like it &#8211; Or not&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;What&#8217;s the difference between a &#8220;Dud&#8221; and a &#8220;Dude&#8221; &#8211; the letter &#8220;E&#8221;&#8230;. Ha!&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Dude, of course, being slang for a male and Dud being something that&#8217;s basically useless&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve known many such people that fit BOTH terms!&#8230;. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m sure you have too&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0All right, so it&#8217;s not the best joke in the World, but, I thought I would start aiming our Blog to a somewhat lighter horizon&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Anyone out there have a &#8220;Homemade&#8221; joke they&#8217;d like to share?&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Come on, now, one of the requirements of being an MR Community member, or, for that matter, a member of the Human Condition, is a sense of humor&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0In this day and time, we all need a good laugh&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s just call this a &#8220;filler&#8221; Post&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m busy getting ready to head to the Great Northwest and I&#8217;m trying to keep my promise to Post more&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0REMEMBER, Uncle MR wants you to Post too! (homage to the old WWII recruitment poster, &#8220;Uncle Sam Wants You!&#8221;)&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0I was typing up a recent Post at my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,22,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}