{"id":1127,"date":"2007-05-10T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T17:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2007-05-10T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T17:15:20","slug":"on-mispronunciations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"On Mispronunciations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True story.<\/p>\n<p>When I read the first <i>Harry Potter<\/i> book, back in the dark days of the autumn of 1999, I had no idea how to pronounce Hermione&#8217;s name.  What I came up with was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hermey Own.<\/p>\n<p>Like Hermey, the elf who wanted to be a dentist in <i>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/i>.  Plus Own.<\/p>\n<p>Hermey Own.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I actually prefer my pronunciation to the way it&#8217;s said in the films.  Because my pronunciation is silly, and the real pronunciation sounds like cats have everyones&#8217; tongues. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Hermey Own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True story. When I read the first Harry Potter book, back in the dark days of the autumn of 1999, I had no idea how to pronounce Hermione&#8217;s name. What I came up with was&#8230; Hermey Own. Like Hermey, the elf who wanted to be a dentist in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Plus Own. Hermey<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1127\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Mispronunciations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[852,545],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-headline","tag-hermione-granger","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}