{"id":20,"date":"2007-11-20T08:37:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/20\/should-i-really-guess\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:08:31","slug":"should-i-really-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/20\/should-i-really-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I really guess?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me a linguistic nut, but I am confused by the phrase, &#8220;guess what&#8230;&#8221;.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I&#8217;ve used it quite a bit myself; and perhaps the very fact that Americans in general understand the convention validates its use.  However, it does tend to create a conundrum for the person being asked:  should I really guess (and risk getting it right and stealing their thunder!), or just say, &#8220;I have no idea,&#8221;?   Some people respond to this plight by jokingly guessing outrageous things, but &#8211; by personal experience &#8211; I have found this to be less effective, since it sometimes irritates the person who has wonderful news to tell.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to know what you think.  Do you use the phrase?  Why do we say it?  What&#8217;s the craziest guess you&#8217;ve ever offered or received?  Do we really intend for someone to guess at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me a linguistic nut, but I am confused by the phrase, &#8220;guess what&#8230;&#8221;. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I&#8217;ve used it quite a bit myself; and perhaps the very fact that Americans in general understand the convention validates its use. However, it does tend to create a conundrum for the person being asked: should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[105,106],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}