{"id":1185,"date":"2011-07-09T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T14:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2011-07-09T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T14:38:28","slug":"what-do-americans-think-of-english-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/what-do-americans-think-of-english-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"What do Americans think of English accents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, Americans often see my southern English accent as \u2018cute\u2019. They also confuse it for being \u2018British\u2019, no matter how many times I explain there is no such thing. <\/p>\n<p>I came across this funny video today of the American comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elon_Gold\">Elon Gold<\/a> talking about accents, including English ones. Take a look:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tvfVopjx1zs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, Americans often see my southern English accent as \u2018cute\u2019. They also confuse it for being \u2018British\u2019, no matter how many times I explain there is no such thing. I came across this funny video today of the American comedian Elon Gold talking about accents, including English ones. Take a look:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[863,381,100,3,1014,252,572],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","tag-accents","tag-american-english","tag-culture","tag-english","tag-english-accents","tag-russian","tag-southern-accents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}