{"id":337,"date":"2008-04-28T17:51:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-04-28T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:53:15","slug":"lost-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two or three years ago, someone called into a National Public Radio talk show and first uttered the phrase &#8220;I&#8217;ll take my answer off the air,&#8221;\u00a0meaning that he or she would hang up and listen to the answer on the radio.\u00a0 Which, of course, is taking one&#8217;s answer <em>on<\/em> the air.\u00a0 But the phrase sounded smart to other listeners, and today almost every NPR caller says &#8220;I&#8217;ll take my answer off the air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I had to learn English as a second language they&#8217;d have to put me on the short bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two or three years ago, someone called into a National Public Radio talk show and first uttered the phrase &#8220;I&#8217;ll take my answer off the air,&#8221;\u00a0meaning that he or she would hang up and listen to the answer on the radio.\u00a0 Which, of course, is taking one&#8217;s answer on the air.\u00a0 But the phrase sounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}