{"id":379549,"date":"2013-07-09T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/whats-an-annah-ism\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:30:00","slug":"whats-an-annah-ism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/09\/whats-an-annah-ism\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s an Annah-ism"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span>What’s an Annah-ism, you ask?<\/o:p><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span>I am notorious for mixing metaphors, continents, and timeframes.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span>
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You know how it is when traveling to a foreign land, no matter how hard you try to understand the cultural idiosyncrasies and allegories, they just don’t make sense?<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/span>Well, I\u2019m like a tourist in my own native land.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span>Over the years, I’ve had quite a few doozies<\/i>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span>As a writer, I\u2019m constantly relying on Warren or Google to verify or explain this expression or that analogy.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span>And despite the chuckles that follow these little speech mishaps, I thank my lucky charms that my children didn\u2019t inherit an affinity for these magically delicious howlers\u2026<\/o:p><\/span><\/span>
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<\/span>I\u2019m also indebted to Big Guy, who came up with that Annah-ism all on his own, when I asked for something I might mix up with \u201cThanking my lucky stars\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span>
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Smart and handsome and funny, that boy of mine!<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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What better way to commemorate this quirky side of me than by sharing it with you.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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And to all those founders of said butchered verbiage, especially to Shakespeare, whom I’m quite sure I caused to roll over in his grave, all I can say is…laugh with the punches…<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The #1 Annah-ism of all time?<\/span><\/span>
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(to date, of course…)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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It happened.<\/span><\/div>\n
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In the kitchen. (I can’t make this shit up.)<\/span><\/div>\n
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With Beauty and one of her friends.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I was talking with them about some disagreeable thing or another when it came spewing from my mouth…<\/span><\/div>\n
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“There’s something wrong in Denver.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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\ufeff<\/div>\n

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<\/span>With love and a bit of laughter for you, my magical friends…<\/span><\/span>
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Soon\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s an Annah-ism, you ask? I am notorious for mixing metaphors, continents, and timeframes. You know how it is when traveling to a foreign land, no matter how hard you try to understand the cultural idiosyncrasies and allegories, they just don’t make sense? Well, I\u2019m like a tourist in my own native land. Over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,1005,1046,1047,655,1048,1049],"class_list":["post-379549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annah-elizabeth","tag-annah-ism","tag-english","tag-expression-american-tourist","tag-humor","tag-language-arts","tag-metaphors"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/231-Something-wrong-in-Denver.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}