{"id":484,"date":"2012-01-15T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2012-01-15T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T23:11:12","slug":"pronouncing-the-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/15\/pronouncing-the-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronouncing the Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhen we first saw the names Belonger and Blonger, we assumed, as you may have, that they were pronounced like the word &#8220;<strong>longer<\/strong>&#8220;. It&#8217;s hard to tell because the name is very nearly unique, but the evidence suggests three options:<\/p>\n<p>We use what we believe to be the Americanized pronunciation, which rhymes with <strong>conjure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re feeling French, give it that continental sound, <strong>blohn-zhuh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you&#8217;re a cheesehead, you may say like some still say Belonger in the old home town, <strong>be-lahn-jee<\/strong>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first saw the names Belonger and Blonger, we assumed, as you may have, that they were pronounced like the word &#8220;longer&#8220;. It&#8217;s hard to tell because the name is very nearly unique, but the evidence suggests three options: We use what we believe to be the Americanized pronunciation, which rhymes with conjure. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essentials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blongerbros.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}