{"id":13792,"date":"2025-07-19T19:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:11:38","slug":"next-week-mark-twain-on-the-awful-c-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13792","title":{"rendered":"Next Week: Mark Twain On The Awful C Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the joke here is about the letter &#8216;c&#8217; in the German language, not the C programming language. But it could be about both since trying to learn either one will make you cry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13793\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/german_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/german_c.png 526w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/german_c-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the joke here is about the letter &#8216;c&#8217; in the German language, not the C programming language. But it could be about both since trying to learn either one will make you cry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[295,288],"class_list":["post-13792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-rainy-day-fun","tag-the-computer-geek-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13794,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions\/13794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}