{"id":2616,"date":"2010-11-19T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2010-11-19T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T19:02:17","slug":"everyone-has-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/everyone-has-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Has Accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tUnlearning to &#8216;tawk&#8217; like a New Yorker was the topic of discussion in today&#8217;s NY Region section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/21\/nyregion\/21accent.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;src=me\">New York Times<\/a>. The article brings up an important element &#8212; that accents can be seen anywhere. The writer speaks to many different clients that decided to take part in an accent modification program. They speak of a feeling of belonging when their in their hometown, where their accent is void, and a feeling of inferiority when leaving their hometown.<\/p>\n<p>The important message that we enjoyed from this piece was that EVERYONE has an accent &#8211; from local to international accents, we all have them! It only becomes a problem for people when the accent draws more attention than the words that are being said.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about our accent modification program by browsing our <a href=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/speech\/specialized-areas\/accent-modification\/\">new web section<\/a> on the topic. If you are interested in learning more about how this program might help you feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/contact-us\">email or call us<\/a> with any questions.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlearning to &#8216;tawk&#8217; like a New Yorker was the topic of discussion in today&#8217;s NY Region section of the New York Times. The article brings up an important element &#8212; that accents can be seen anywhere. The writer speaks to many different clients that decided to take part in an accent modification program. They speak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Everyone Has Accents","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,27],"tags":[310,334,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}