{"id":7998,"date":"2013-07-16T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:12:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T14:12:43","slug":"wish-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7998","title":{"rendered":"Wish List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited to learn from a <a title=\"Article at Smithsonian.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/people-places\/Snollygosters-Wampus-Toe-Socials-and-Other-Words-from-the-Dictionary-of-American-Regional-English.html\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian article<\/a> that there is such a thing as the <em>Dictionary of American Regional English<\/em>. I could get lost in a book like that. I had a lot of fun just with the examples given in the article. Apparently I use the Midwestern term for the layer of dusty bits lurking under the furniture (I call those fuzzy critters &#8220;dust bunnies&#8221; and not &#8220;dust kitties&#8221;). But I might have to switch to &#8220;house moss&#8221; (the Southern term) because I like it better. And isn&#8217;t &#8220;pinkletink&#8221; (Martha&#8217;s Vineyard term for a spring peeper) the cutest word ever?<\/p>\n<p>So I thought <em>DARE<\/em> would be a great book to own and I was going to put it on my wish list. Then I found that there are five volumes that range in price on Amazon.com from about $90.00 to $115.00 <em>each<\/em>. Wish list indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was excited to learn from a Smithsonian article that there is such a thing as the Dictionary of American Regional English. I could get lost in a book like that. I had a lot of fun just with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=7998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8009,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions\/8009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}