{"id":356,"date":"2008-01-25T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-01-25T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T03:16:00","slug":"rrrrrrrrrrrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2008\/01\/25\/rrrrrrrrrrrr\/","title":{"rendered":"Rrrrrrrrrrrr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon is trying to learn how to roll her R&#8217;s. She&#8217;s never been able to and I&#8217;ve never been able to satisfactorily explain how to do it. It comes easily to me. My gran can&#8217;t do it either. It&#8217;s been a longstanding family joke that she can&#8217;t and it amuses some of us to occasionally ask her to give it a try. <\/p>\n<p>Shan&#8217;s never really expressed an interest in wanting to learn how to makes this noise until today when her French teacher teased her about her inability to roll her R&#8217;s. Ever since she showed up at work after school and told me she had been sitting in my breakroom attempting to do it it&#8217;s been nothing but rrrrrrrrrr&#8217;s all evening. My tongue is numb. But, it&#8217;s been hiLARIOUS because both of us were rrrrrrr-ing all around The Walmart as we shopped and on the ride home. <\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t imagine what we may have sounded like as we browsed the frozen food section, please play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimelia.com\/audio\/rrrrr.mp3\" target=\"blank\">this MP3<\/a> about 150 times in a row \ud83d\ude42 (Just do my bandwidth a favour and right-click on the link and save-as to your desktop, kthxbye)<\/p>\n<p>That was 3 hours ago. She&#8217;s currently out in the living room watching Family Guy and making that weird little chirp like she&#8217;s trying to jumpstart her tongue. It&#8217;s most amusing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon is trying to learn how to roll her R&#8217;s. She&#8217;s never been able to and I&#8217;ve never been able to satisfactorily explain how to do it. It comes easily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}