{"id":395,"date":"2010-11-02T19:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoinreads\/?p=395"},"modified":"2017-11-07T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:30:41","slug":"billy-donahue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2010\/11\/02\/billy-donahue\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Donahue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book is a very thorough look-through of the English language and how it has developed. It covers everything from why &#8220;one&#8221; is pronounced &#8220;won&#8221; and not &#8216;owe-ne&#8217; or why we have the swear words we do. It even explains why there is overwhelmed, underwhelmed but no whelmed. He is a hysterical author with a unique look on the common day occurrences and fun to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book is a very thorough look-through of the English language and how it has developed. It covers everything from why &#8220;one&#8221; is pronounced &#8220;won&#8221; and not &#8216;owe-ne&#8217; or why we have the swear words we do. It even explains why there is overwhelmed, underwhelmed but no whelmed. He is a hysterical author with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2010\/11\/02\/billy-donahue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Billy Donahue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}