{"id":119,"date":"2009-01-27T19:03:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T01:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelgreenlief.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-01-27T19:03:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T01:03:24","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2009\/01\/27\/did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStewardesses\u201d is the longest word typed with only the left hand and &#8220;lollipop&#8221; is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n<p>The sentence: &#8220;The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog&#8221; uses every letter of the alphabet.   (Now, you KNOW you&#8217;re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)<\/p>\n<p>TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.   (All you typists are going to test this out)<\/p>\n<p>The average person&#8217;s left hand does 56% of the typing.<\/p>\n<p>No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.<\/p>\n<p>Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters &#8220;mt&#8221;.   (Do you doubt this?)<\/p>\n<p>The words &#8216;racecar,&#8217;  &#8216;kayak&#8217; and &#8216;level&#8217; are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to &#8220;do&#8221; this one.)<\/p>\n<p>There are only four words in the English language which end in &#8220;dous&#8221;: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.  (You do not doubt this, do you?)<\/p>\n<p>There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: &#8220;abstemious&#8221; and &#8220;facetious.&#8221;  (Yes, admit it, you are going to say, a e i o u)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStewardesses\u201d is the longest word typed with only the left hand and &#8220;lollipop&#8221; is the longest word typed with your right hand. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn&#8217;t you?) The sentence: &#8220;The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog&#8221; uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you&#8217;re going to try this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/2009\/01\/27\/did-you-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Did you know?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/rachelgreensleeves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}