{"id":459,"date":"2007-01-04T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/01\/04\/the-scooby-doo-conundrum\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T07:33:07","slug":"the-scooby-doo-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/01\/04\/the-scooby-doo-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scooby-Doo Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just told my kids that Scooby-Doo has a speech defect. But now I&#8217;m not sure.<br \/>\nEven though the dog speaks and functions in a very human way, is he not still essentially a dog? And given that, should we not therefore judge him as some sort of super-freak dog speech genius, relative to the dog-normal-speaking-ability curve???<br \/>\nIf I spoke Chinese as well as Scooby speaks English, compared to how most dogs speak English (eg: not at all), let&#8217;s just say: I&#8217;d speak really good Chinese.<br \/>\nPerhaps the so-called &#8220;defect&#8221; lies not in Scooby&#8217;s speech, but in our hearts and their collective inability to judge things relative to a dog-normal-speaking-ability curve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just told my kids that Scooby-Doo has a speech defect. But now I&#8217;m not sure. Even though the dog speaks and functions in a very human way, is he not still essentially a dog? And given that, should we not therefore judge him as some sort of super-freak dog speech genius, relative to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-also-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}