{"id":2430,"date":"2012-10-15T10:31:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2012-10-15T10:31:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T15:31:46","slug":"political-pronunciation-of-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/political-pronunciation-of-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Political pronunciation of Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you pronounce the name of Iowa&#8217;s southern neighbor when you&#8217;re in that state? The New York Times is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/13\/us\/politics\/missouree-missouruh-to-be-politic-in-missouri-say-both.html?_r=0\">looking at the political implications<\/a> of pronouncing Missour-<em>ee<\/em> like a Northerner\/urban\/younger person or Missou-<em>rah\u00a0<\/em>like a Southerner\/rural\/older person.<\/p>\n<p>Another dimension to the question: Now that Missouri is in the SEC, how do you pronounce the name of the team that lost at home to Vanderbilt and got dumptrucked by Alabama?* Is that going to have a wider impact on state linguistics as a whole?<\/p>\n<p>*Am I enjoying that? <strong>Immensely<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you pronounce the name of Iowa&#8217;s southern neighbor when you&#8217;re in that state? The New York Times is looking at the political implications of pronouncing Missour-ee like a Northerner\/urban\/younger person or Missou-rah\u00a0like a Southerner\/rural\/older person. Another dimension to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/political-pronunciation-of-missouri\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}