{"id":255,"date":"2008-03-20T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2015-05-03T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T13:22:19","slug":"interested-in-accent-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/interested-in-accent-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in Accent Reduction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">Then watch this clip of Steve Martin in \u201cThe Pink Panther\u201d to see how difficult it can be, especially if you want to rush it. Heck even if you are not interested in A\/R, just watch this clip now &#8211; have a laugh!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mlOiYrlvW6g?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have been coaching accent reduction specifically since 2001. You have to have a sense of humour about it at times, but if you practice regularly and don&#8217;t give up, you can indeed reduce your accent and speak more clearly.\u00a0 Here is the same video link, FYI.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mlOiYrlvW6g\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mlOiYrlvW6g<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then watch this clip of Steve Martin in \u201cThe Pink Panther\u201d to see how difficult it can be, especially if you want to rush it. Heck even if you are not interested in A\/R, just watch this clip now &#8211; have a laugh! I have been coaching accent reduction specifically since 2001. You have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[535,537,564],"tags":[617,618],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-speak-english-better","category-videos","tag-accent-reduction","tag-pronunciation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}