{"id":33,"date":"2003-03-20T12:21:47","date_gmt":"2003-03-20T12:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-03-26T02:38:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T08:38:13","slug":"welcome-back-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2003\/03\/welcome-back-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"qatar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bdragon.com\/lair\/_images\/qatar.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/>I&#8217;ve been hearing the country Qatar&#8217;s name being pronounced so many various ways in all the war coverage &#8212; from &#8220;gutter&#8221;, &#8220;cutter&#8221; and &#8220;gatter&#8221; to &#8220;guitar&#8221; (or maybe it was &#8220;gitter&#8221;)(!) &#8212; I started to wonder just how the heck it&#8217;s supposedly properly pronounced (in American English)&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?qatar\">According to Merriam-Webster<\/a> and their online audio pronunciation, it apparently is supposed to sound like &#8220;kotter&#8221;.  I haven&#8217;t heard that one yet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?qatar\">Merriam-Webster: Qatar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing the country Qatar&#8217;s name being pronounced so many various ways in all the war coverage &#8212; from &#8220;gutter&#8221;, &#8220;cutter&#8221; and &#8220;gatter&#8221; to &#8220;guitar&#8221; (or maybe it was &#8220;gitter&#8221;)(!) &#8212; I started to wonder just how the heck it&#8217;s supposedly properly pronounced (in American English)&#8230; According to Merriam-Webster and their online audio pronunciation, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[97,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-33","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-vocabulary-word-for-the-day","7":"tag-gulf","8":"tag-qatar","9":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}