{"id":2938,"date":"2011-09-18T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2938"},"modified":"2011-10-06T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:24:07","slug":"h-aspire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2938","title":{"rendered":":H aspir\u00e9:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>a\u0283 aspire<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In French the letter &lt;h&gt; is always silent.  However, some instances of the letter do not allow <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1387\">elision<\/a> of a preceding vowel, for instance of a preceding definite article, nor do they allow <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2943\">liaison<\/a>.  For example, le hareng (&#8220;herring&#8221;) and not *l&#8217;hareng, les harengs (&#8220;the herrings&#8221;) = <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>le ar\u0251\u0303<\/strong><\/span> and not *<span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>lez ar\u0251\u0303<\/strong><\/span>. The &lt;h&gt; in this and similar words is &#8220;aspir\u00e9&#8221;.  The opposite is h muet <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>a\u0283 m\u0265\u025b<\/strong><\/span>. An example: l&#8217;heure (&#8220;the hour&#8221;), les heures (&#8220;the hours&#8221;) = <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>lez \u0153\u0281<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation a\u0283 aspire In French the letter &lt;h&gt; is always silent. However, some instances of the letter do not allow elision of a preceding vowel, for instance of a preceding definite article, nor do they allow liaison. For example, le &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2938\/revisions\/3774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}