{"id":297,"date":"2005-06-22T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=297"},"modified":"2005-06-22T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T20:45:00","slug":"brain-twisting-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Brain-twisting English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one is making the rounds again.&nbsp; These will make your brain<br \/>\nspin, even if you are a native\/experienced English speaker.<br  \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The bandage was wound around the wound.<\/p>\n<p>The farm was used to produce produce.<\/p>\n<p>The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.<\/p>\n<p>We must polish the Polish furniture.<\/p>\n<p>He could lead if he would get the lead out.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.<\/p>\n<p>A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum<\/p>\n<p>When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.<\/p>\n<p>I did not object to the object.<\/p>\n<p>The insurance was invalid for the! invalid.<\/p>\n<p>There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.<\/p>\n<p>They were too close to the door to close it.<\/p>\n<p>The buck does funny things when the does are present.<\/p>\n<p>A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.<\/p>\n<p>To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.<\/p>\n<p>The wind was too strong to wind the sail<\/p>\n<p>After a number of injections my jaw got number.<\/p>\n<p>Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.<\/p>\n<p>I had to subject the subject to a series of tests<\/p>\n<p>How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is making the rounds again.&nbsp; These will make your brain spin, even if you are a native\/experienced English speaker. The bandage was wound around the wound. The farm was used to produce produce. The dump was so full that it had to refuse <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=297\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}