{"id":1942,"date":"2002-04-05T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2002-04-05T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2002-04-05T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2002-04-05T19:25:11","slug":"cant_pronounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/05\/cant_pronounce.html","title":{"rendered":"Can’t pronounce your players without a program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the AP Pronunciation Guide<\/a>. Just in case you were never quite certain how to pronounce the name of King Abdullah of Jordan (ahb-DOO’-luh) vs. Saudi Crown Prince Abdulla (ahb-DUH’-luh).<\/p>\n

(Via JillMatrix<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the AP Pronunciation Guide. Just in case you were never quite certain how to pronounce the name of King Abdullah of Jordan (ahb-DOO’-luh) vs. Saudi Crown Prince Abdulla…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1815,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/25\/things_left_uns.html","url_meta":{"origin":1942,"position":0},"title":"Things left unsaid","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 25-Apr-02 5:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So, according to CNN, Prince Abdullah is coming to Dubya's ranch with stern words . 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