{"id":1060,"date":"2018-03-24T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2018-03-24T12:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:48:12","slug":"brit-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Brit Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Union-Jack-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Union-Jack-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Union-Jack.png 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nMy DNA results showed I have much more Brit in me than I ever thought.  If you, too, had this finding and were surprised by your results, you might want to have fun with this BBC &#8220;quiz&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/story\/20180205-which-british-accent-is-closest-to-your-own\">Do You Have a Secret British Accent?<\/a><br \/>\nApparently, mine is East Midlands.  I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s because I spent my youth in the northern U.S and the rest of my life in the south resulting in a blended accent.  In my travels, people can never identify where I originate.  Or, perhaps, I&#8217;m harboring deep down ancestral roots from the East Midlands where my family did originate in the Leicester region in the 1600&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>Blimey, this is ace barmy! (Translation:  Wow, this is amazing crazy!)  So give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My DNA results showed I have much more Brit in me than I ever thought. If you, too, had this finding and were surprised by your results, you might want to have fun with this BBC &#8220;quiz&#8221; Do You Have a Secret British Accent? Apparently, mine is East Midlands. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=1060\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brit Speak&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[97,576,578,577],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-and-musings","tag-dna","tag-east-midlands","tag-language","tag-leicester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}