{"id":443,"date":"2016-02-02T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T23:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T02:43:31","slug":"englich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"EnGLICH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poem titled, &#8220;EnGLICH&#8221; was written as a result of an experience tutoring grade-school children when my boys were small. We all have to admit that the English language has more than just a few confusing elements. I just had to have a little fun with it!<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, it is easy to read right through the rhyme. Makes you wonder, at least a little, why we bother teaching spelling. However, I am still a stickler for correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.\u00a0 I am not anywhere near ready for correctness in the English language to be a past memory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/3375010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-444\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-444\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Englich.jpg\" alt=\"Song of the Heart Gretchen Slinker JOnes\" width=\"414\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Englich.jpg 414w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Englich-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EnGLICH &#8211; excerpt from Song of the Heart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Click on the poem graphic for a link to purchase the book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem titled, &#8220;EnGLICH&#8221; was written as a result of an experience tutoring grade-school children when my boys were small. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EnGLICH<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[68,70,69],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songheart","tag-christian-poetry","tag-gretchen-slinker-jones","tag-song-of-the-heart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}