{"id":21723,"date":"2026-02-19T20:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=21723"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:13:59","slug":"a-lesson-on-proper-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=21723","title":{"rendered":"A lesson on proper grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2335-168x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2335-168x300.webp 168w, https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_2335.webp 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><br \/>\nOne day, during a lesson on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of hands for who could use the word \u201cbeautiful\u201d in the same sentence twice.<\/p>\n<p>First, she called on little Suzie, who responded with,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father bought my mother a beautiful dress and she looked beautiful in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery good, Suzie,\u201d replied the teacher. She then called on little Michael.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mommy planned a beautiful banquet and it turned out beautifully, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcellent, Michael!\u201d Then, the teacher called on little Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, at the dinner table, my sister told my father that she was pregnant, and he said,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Beautiful, f*cking beautiful!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, during a lesson on proper grammar, the teacher asked for a show of hands for who could use the word \u201cbeautiful\u201d in the same sentence&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21725,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions\/21725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}