{"id":133,"date":"2011-07-18T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/18\/its-been-awhile\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T01:53:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T01:53:17","slug":"its-been-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/18\/its-been-awhile\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been awhile&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m still trying to learn sign language. I hope to one day be good enough to interpret for schools, churches, camps, wherever I can bridge the gap between the deaf and the hearing world.<\/p>\n<p>What I have learned so far this summer, confirms that what I already knew. Without a computer, my spelling is awful! Many adults finger spell words, when no sign exists or to make sure they are clear in what they are trying to convey.<\/p>\n<p>So I ask all of you out there, how do I improve my spelling? I&#8217;m not bad at any given sign, but the finger spelling, has got to be the worst of this language. With some luck, I hope I use the right facial expressions and other non-manual signs correctly to make up for the finger spelling.<\/p>\n<p>So I will keep going, keeping my eyes on the prize! This will work out, and I will be OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m still trying to learn sign language. I hope to one day be good enough to interpret for schools, churches, camps, wherever I can bridge the gap between the deaf and the hearing world. What I have learned so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/18\/its-been-awhile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familydill.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}