{"id":213,"date":"2009-02-03T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2015-04-14T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:26:02","slug":"who-cares-that-gsp-has-an-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/who-cares-that-gsp-has-an-accent\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Cares That GSP Has an Accent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/BJP-vs-GSP.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298388369484026162\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; cursor: hand; width: 104px; height: 81px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/BJP-vs-GSP.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I know this post is not really communication-related, except if you consider that GSP (Georges St.-Pierre) has a thick French-Canadian accent, but I just HAD to write a quick WOO-HOO and congratulations to our home-grown UFC champion (MMA &#8211; Mixed Martial Arts) Georges &#8220;Rush&#8217; St.-Pierre on defending his title against BJ &#8216;the Prodigy&#8217; Penn, from Hawaii. BJ is a great fighter, but I am relieved that GSP won and proud that he did it in such a convincing way. When you are THAT good, no one CARES that you have an accent!!!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ever let an accent slow you down or convince you that you can&#8217;t follow your dreams and ambitions. Ever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, I know this post is not really communication-related, except if you consider that GSP (Georges St.-Pierre) has a thick French-Canadian accent, but I just HAD to write a quick WOO-HOO and congratulations to our home-grown UFC champion (MMA &#8211; Mixed Martial Arts) Georges &#8220;Rush&#8217; St.-Pierre on defending his title against BJ &#8216;the Prodigy&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[538,535,537],"tags":[541,588,724,644],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-confidence","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-speak-english-better","tag-accents","tag-canadian-culture","tag-mma","tag-ufc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/BJP-vs-GSP.jpg?fit=104%2C81&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}