{"id":667,"date":"2018-12-31T22:26:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=667"},"modified":"2018-12-31T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T22:26:03","slug":"okey-doke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/okey-doke\/","title":{"rendered":"Okey-Doke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width='200' height='240' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/girlhorn.jpg' alt='' \/>I remember the lightly-accented words of my word-loving <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.62.113\/~totl\/skywritings\/index.php?\/archives\/150-Eszme-es-fizikum.html\">cosmopolitan immigrant father<\/a>, telling me this joke in the early 50&#8217;s when the words were still current:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>FATHER<\/b>: There are two words I want you to promise never to use: One is &#8220;swell&#8221; and the other is &#8220;lousy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>SON<\/b>: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_proposed_etymologies_of_OK\">Okay<\/a><\/i>-Doke, Pop, what are they?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=ok\">mispronunciation<\/a> partly missed &#8212; and so unwittingly made &#8212; the point.) <\/p>\n<p>He also asked me to promise never to play jazz on my horn. <\/p>\n<p>(My grandmother asked me to promise never to marry a gentile girl.)<\/p>\n<p>I kept both promises, unwittingly, one by giving up the horn altogether, the other by never marrying at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the lightly-accented words of my word-loving cosmopolitan immigrant father, telling me this joke in the early 50&#8217;s when the words were still current: FATHER: There are two words I want you to promise never to use: One is &#8220;swell&#8221; and the other is &#8220;lousy.&#8221; SON: Okay-Doke, Pop, what are they? (His mispronunciation partly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/31\/okey-doke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Okey-Doke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}