{"id":277284,"date":"2018-11-20T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/20\/oh-i-actually-know-the-answer-to-this-one\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:19:07","slug":"oh-i-actually-know-the-answer-to-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/20\/oh-i-actually-know-the-answer-to-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thevioletsunflower.tumblr.com\/post\/178615524609\/oh-i-actually-know-the-answer-to-this-one\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">thevioletsunflower<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teathattast.tumblr.com\/post\/178499245375\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">teathattast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/abf17df108bd059d61071581336ae532\/tumblr_pfp0vmaHGd1tpj79b_540.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh! I actually know the answer to this one! American newspaper ads charged by the letter, so a lot of people would eliminate unnecessary letters like the second L in \u201ccancelled\u201d or the U in \u201ccolour\u201d. Some of these spelling changes were used so often that they stuck, and now Americans just spell some words differently.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: Americans spell things weird because capitalism<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thevioletsunflower: teathattast: Oh! I actually know the answer to this one! American newspaper ads charged by the letter, so a lot of people would eliminate unnecessary letters like the second L in \u201ccancelled\u201d or the U in \u201ccolour\u201d. Some of these spelling changes were used so often that they stuck, and now Americans just spell &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/20\/oh-i-actually-know-the-answer-to-this-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[677,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}