{"id":40205,"date":"2013-12-25T22:22:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T05:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/25\/talking-points.html"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T20:43:43","slug":"talking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/25\/talking-points.html","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points"},"content":{"rendered":"
It's rather disturbing that the quiz accurately identified, as two cities where the talk like I do, Denver and Aurora. \u00a0(Minneapolis was the other one.) \u00a0Least similar cities are Montgomery, AL; Winston-Salem, NC; and Philadelphia, PA.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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How Y\u2019all, Youse and You Guys Talk<\/a><\/p>\n

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It's rather disturbing that the quiz accurately identified, as two cities where the talk like I do, Denver and Aurora. \u00a0(Minneapolis was the other one.) \u00a0Least similar cities are Montgomery, AL; Winston-Salem, NC; and Philadelphia, PA.\ufeff How Y\u2019all, Youse and You Guys Talk View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,31,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-personality-tests","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48856,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/broadbanding-cities.html","url_meta":{"origin":40205,"position":0},"title":"Broadbanding Cities","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 10-Dec-14 9:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll note that my own home of Centennial is part of the Next Century Cities consortium (http:\/\/nextcenturycities.org\/member-cities\/#post-227). 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