{"id":24436,"date":"2014-02-25T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24436"},"modified":"2014-02-25T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:57:46","slug":"qotd-the-power-of-the-right-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/25\/qotd-the-power-of-the-right-accent\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The power of the right accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We assign 20 extra IQ points to anyone who speaks with a British accent, redistributing them from the people who speak with Southern accents. <\/p>\n<p>Dave Weigel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2014\/02\/piers_morgan_loses_cnn_show_the_british_host_was_rubbish.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shut Up, Piers: Thank goodness <em>Piers Morgan Live<\/em> is dead. Finally.&#8221;, <em>Slate<\/em><\/a>, 2014-02-24<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We assign 20 extra IQ points to anyone who speaks with a British accent, redistributing them from the people who speak with Southern accents. Dave Weigel, &#8220;Shut Up, Piers: Thank goodness Piers Morgan Live is dead. Finally.&#8221;, Slate, 2014-02-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[57,28,41,13],"tags":[400,907,101],"class_list":["post-24436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-language","tag-snobbery","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6m8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24437,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436\/revisions\/24437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}