{"id":1487,"date":"2003-07-22T04:06:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/22\/english\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T19:41:25","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/07\/22\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14030,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/doc.weblogs.com\\\/2002\\\/01\\\/25#bloggingOutLoud&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060514162254\\\/http:\\\/\\\/doc.weblogs.com:80\\\/2002\\\/01\\\/25&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 16:56:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:03:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:03:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14031,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/doc.weblogs.com\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/22#iWasOverheardToHaveSaid&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060514022723\\\/http:\\\/\\\/doc.weblogs.com:80\\\/2003\\\/07\\\/22&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 16:56:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:03:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 16:03:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  English is the preacher&#8217;s language, because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Garrison Keillor<\/p>\n<p>Boy, ain&#8217;t that the truth. I <em>know<\/em> I talk like that. Sometimes I blog like that, too, though I try not to do it on too much of a regular basis. ;)<\/p>\n<p>I found that quote through <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2002\/01\/25#bloggingOutLoud\" title=\"Blogging Out Loud\">Doc<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2003\/07\/22#iWasOverheardToHaveSaid\" title=\"I was overheard to have said...\">Searls<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English is the preacher&#8217;s language, because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}