{"id":1683,"date":"2013-08-14T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2013-08-14T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T17:44:41","slug":"for-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/2013\/08\/14\/for-the-record\/","title":{"rendered":"For the record."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qhTSFdjVf14?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI have been called &#8220;Nig&#8221;, &#8220;Nigh&#8221;, &#8220;Nu&#8221;, &#8220;Ning&#8221;, &#8220;Ang&#8221;, and &#8220;Eng&#8221;. For the record, this video is how I pronounce it. I understand that it is not an easy name to pronounce if you&#8217;ve never seen it before. I tend to give people a few passes even after I&#8217;ve explained it if they are respectful. One time, however, I was asked by a very rude cashier at Store 24 in Providence, &#8220;What does THAT stand for?! That&#8217;s a stupid name.&#8221; to which I replied, &#8220;It stands for N as in &#8220;Ng&#8221; and &#8220;G&#8221; as in &#8220;Go F*** yourself.&#8221; I&#8217;m not proud of that but hey, I was young and stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been called &#8220;Nig&#8221;, &#8220;Nigh&#8221;, &#8220;Nu&#8221;, &#8220;Ning&#8221;, &#8220;Ang&#8221;, and &#8220;Eng&#8221;. For the record, this video is how I pronounce it. I understand that it is not an easy name to pronounce if you&#8217;ve never seen it before. I tend to give people a few passes even after I&#8217;ve explained it if they are respectful. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/followgreg.com\/gregoryng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}