{"id":10252,"date":"2010-12-24T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T16:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2010-12-24T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T21:13:06","slug":"merry-christmas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=10252","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obligatory: To everyone who celebrates, I hope you have a great holiday. To those that don&#8217;t celebrate&#8230; er, have a nice day anyhow?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very curious how much this video will appeal to people.  It&#8217;s a very localized form of humor. It&#8217;s making fun of the &#8220;Pittsburgh accent&#8221; and poking fun of the general culture around the Steel City. It had me howling, but like I said, I don&#8217;t know how far the appeal goes.  If I watched a video where people from Reinickendorf made fun of the people from Spandau, it might have the folks from Berlin in stitches, but I imagine the humor would be lost on me.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ay-Om_iEfQs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ay-Om_iEfQs'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I have to say these guys do a remarkable job nailing the accent.  I&#8217;ve known people that talk like this.  In particular, about 10% of the guys in my graduating class looked and sounded like Donny. (The skinny one.) Amazingly, the accent is 100% acting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RQ7XAEy8h9Q\">The actors don&#8217;t talk like this at all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Merry Christmas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obligatory: To everyone who celebrates, I hope you have a great holiday. To those that don&#8217;t celebrate&#8230; er, have a nice day anyhow? I&#8217;m very curious how much this video will appeal to people. It&#8217;s a very localized form of humor. It&#8217;s making fun of the &#8220;Pittsburgh accent&#8221; and poking fun of the general culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}