{"id":2037,"date":"2008-07-22T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2008-07-22T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:22:21","slug":"im-new-to-this-alphabet-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/my-special-stupidity\/im-new-to-this-alphabet-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m new to this alphabet thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the phone just now, verifying my account with <a href=\"http:\/\/bluehost.com\">Bluehost.com<\/a>, my new hosting overlords:<\/p>\n<p><b>Nice lady:<\/b> Domain?<br \/>\n<b>Me, groggily:<\/b> theogeo.com. That&#8217;s t-h-e-o-g-e-o-dot-com.<br \/>\n<b>Nice lady:<\/b> Okay, b-o-g-o, that&#8217;s b as in &#8220;boy&#8221;\u2014<br \/>\n<b>Me, groggily:<\/b> No, ah, t-e-o &#8230; t as in &#8230; &#8230; uh &#8230; &#8220;tea&#8221;?!<br \/>\n<b>Nice lady:<\/b> Oh, t as in &#8220;tiger&#8221;?<br \/>\n<b>Me, groggily:<\/b> Yes!<br \/>\n<b>Nice lady:<\/b> Okay, t-e-o-g-e-o\u2014<br \/>\n<b>Me, groggily:<\/b> Crap. There should be an h in there too.<br \/>\n<b>Nice lady:<\/b> Okay. Where?<br \/>\n<b>Me, groggily:<\/b> t-h-e-o-g-e-o. Sorry! I just woke up. I haven&#8217;t had coffee yet.<br \/>\n<b>Nice lady:<\/b> *polite laughter*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the phone just now, verifying my account with Bluehost.com, my new hosting overlords: Nice lady: Domain? Me, groggily: theogeo.com. That&#8217;s t-h-e-o-g-e-o-dot-com. Nice lady: Okay, b-o-g-o, that&#8217;s b as in &#8220;boy&#8221;\u2014 Me, groggily: No, ah, t-e-o &#8230; t as in &#8230; &#8230; uh &#8230; &#8220;tea&#8221;?! Nice lady: Oh, t as in &#8220;tiger&#8221;? Me, groggily: Yes! Nice lady: Okay, t-e-o-g-e-o\u2014 Me, groggily: Crap. There should be an h in there too. Nice lady: Okay. Where? Me,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[437,436,438],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-special-stupidity","tag-bluehost","tag-phone-conversations","tag-spelling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-wR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}