{"id":7539,"date":"2011-10-25T15:40:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2011-10-25T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:42:57","slug":"great-accent-great-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/great-accent-great-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"With great accent comes great responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/union-jack-faded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"174\" \/>While we&#8217;re on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/power-and-responsibility\/\">great power and responsibility<\/a>, I just wanted to share with you a recent post I saw over at <em>&#8220;Stuff Christians Like&#8221;<\/em> entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonacuff.com\/stuffchristianslike\/2011\/10\/people-who-pray-with-british-accents\/\">People who pray with British accents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;When I hear someone pray with a British accent, they sound like it\u2019s coming out of their mouth in cursive&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; John Acuff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having an English accent in America is something of a blessing and a curse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s constantly assumed that I&#8217;m from Australia. I&#8217;m regularly asked to repeat myself while on the phone because people can&#8217;t understand what I&#8217;ve said. I&#8217;m often asked if I know so-and-so who lives in London. I regularly have to explain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10\">the difference between England, the UK and Great Britain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, people assume that I&#8217;m more intelligent than I actually am&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject of great power and responsibility, I just wanted to share with you a recent post I saw over at &#8220;Stuff Christians Like&#8221; entitled People who pray with British accents: &#8220;When I hear someone pray with a British accent, they sound like it\u2019s coming out of their mouth in cursive&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; John Acuff Having an English<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[620,621,347,118],"class_list":["post-7539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-accents","tag-british","tag-english","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7539"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7539\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}