{"id":428,"date":"2005-12-06T06:38:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T10:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=428"},"modified":"2005-12-06T06:38:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T10:38:39","slug":"a-paean-to-the-city-where-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"A paean to the city where I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~browning\/news\/phillyspeak.html\">a wonderful weekly-paper article<\/a> on linguists&#8217; analysis of native Philadelphian speech.  I spent ten years in the Philly area, and I have to distort one of Jim Quinn&#8217;s sentences thus: <em>Our dialect is so unique the University of<br \/>\nPennsylvania has had a whole department, led by William Labov, one of<br \/>\nAmerica&#8217;s most distinguished linguists, studying it for more than 25 years<\/em>&#8230; and they still couldn&#8217;t get anyone to tell them where to get a good cheesesteak. (They forgot the <em>at<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I just discovered a wonderful weekly-paper article on linguists&#8217; analysis of native Philadelphian speech. I spent ten years in the Philly area, and I have to distort one of Jim Quinn&#8217;s sentences thus: Our dialect is so unique the University of Pennsylvania has had a whole department, led by William Labov, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-6U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}