{"id":134,"date":"2003-11-07T07:38:38","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2003-11-07T07:38:38","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T15:38:38","slug":"pronunciation-of-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/07\/pronunciation-of-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronunciation of &quot;Nuclear&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/whoknows\/nuclear.shtml\">interesting<\/a> bit on what seems to be one of America&#8217;s favorite complaints.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8230; George W. Bush isn&#8217;t the first U.S. president to use it. Dwight Eisenhower, and Gerald Ford were both apparently &#8220;noo-kyoo-ler&#8221; men. Jimmy Carter, who did graduate work in nuclear physics, pronounces the word nook-ee-uh.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that it sounds any less incorrect, but I&#8217;d be willing to bet there are more than a few &#8220;partisan complainers&#8221; who hate Bush&#8217;s pronunciation, but manged to overlook the flaw in Nobel Prize-winning Democrat Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat interesting bit on what seems to be one of America&#8217;s favorite complaints. &#8230; George W. Bush isn&#8217;t the first U.S. president to use it. Dwight Eisenhower, and Gerald Ford were both apparently &#8220;noo-kyoo-ler&#8221; men. Jimmy Carter, who did graduate work in nuclear physics, pronounces the word nook-ee-uh. Not that it sounds any less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-2a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}