{"id":1022,"date":"2007-09-19T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2010-09-22T20:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T03:51:38","slug":"talk-like-a-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Talk like a pirate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, Ms. M sent email reminding me that today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/piratehome.html\">International Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In our church office, Linda, our secretary, and I are both big fans of talking like pirates, and we have been taking full advantage of this annual celebration. Claudette, our administrator, just looks  at us and shakes her head.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of minutes ago, Claudette said, without turning around from her computer, &#8220;OK, it&#8217;s time for me to go. Anything else you want before I take off?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Linda said no, but I said, &#8220;Just one thing. We want to hear you talk like a pirate just once today&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This strange, gruff voice came from Claudette&#8217;s desk. &#8220;Arrr, why  would I want to do that  foolishness?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a moment of shocked silence, Linda and I laughed. &#8220;Hey,&#8221; I said, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got the best pirate voice of any of us!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I do,&#8221; said Claudette, grinning. &#8220;I&#8217;m older and wiser than both of you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Pegleg Claudette,&#8217; that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to call you,&#8221; said Linda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately, Ms. M sent email reminding me that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. In our church office, Linda, our secretary, and I are both big fans of talking like pirates, and we have been taking full advantage of this annual celebration. Claudette, our administrator, just looks at us and shakes her head. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[548],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-talk-like-a-pirate-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7629,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/7629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}