{"id":23,"date":"2004-05-18T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2004-05-18T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T00:30:02","slug":"howdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2004\/05\/18\/howdy\/","title":{"rendered":"howdy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at work today asked me why I say &#8220;howdy&#8221; all the time instead of &#8220;hello&#8221; or &#8220;hi&#8221;.  Frankly, I really had no idea why I have chosen this form of greeting, and confess to have never put any thought into it before. I didn&#8217;t think it was that important, but the person at work figured I was from out West. Then it clicked. <a href=\"http:\/\/pintday.org\/whois\/\">Ev<\/a> answers the phone and starts email with  &#8220;howdy&#8221;, and he hopes that&#8217;s ok with me. Apparently it&#8217;s more than ok with me, as I seem to be emulating him.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a bad thing, and besides, &#8220;howdy!&#8221; sounds all friendly-like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at work today asked me why I say &#8220;howdy&#8221; all the time instead of &#8220;hello&#8221; or &#8220;hi&#8221;. Frankly, I really had no idea why I have chosen this form of greeting, and confess to have never put any thought into it before. I didn&#8217;t think it was that important, but the person at work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}