{"id":1555,"date":"2011-09-09T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T00:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2011-09-09T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T00:38:37","slug":"well-bust-my-buttons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1555","title":{"rendered":"Well, bust my buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI DO have a word that I DO love. It\u2019s a folksy word and sorta rural. It starts with DO. It\u2019s \u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>do-fotchet (dew-fought\u2019 chut)\u00a0 or said by the French (doo-foe&#8217; shay)<\/p>\n<p>For this word, we\u2019re going to take a break from Merriam and Webster. DO get me right, it isn\u2019t wrong to have some fun with colorful expressions when the need arises. The word do-fotchet DO live in many parts of America, I DO declare it DO.<\/p>\n<p>A do-fotchet is another word for thingamajiggy or whatcha-ma-call-it-thingy.<\/p>\n<p>Here, let\u2019s use it. \u201cWhen my son turned 10, I gave him his very own roll of duct tape to better his do-fotchet art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake this here do-fotchet and ratchet loose that thingamajiggy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNanny,\u201d my 4-year-old grandgirl said to me, \u201chand me your phone so I can text my mother.\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d I stammered, \u201cYou know how to use this do-fotchet better than I do?&#8221;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I DO have a word that I DO love. It\u2019s a folksy word and sorta rural. It starts with DO. It\u2019s \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[245,248,370,897,898],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-do-fotchet","tag-doohickey","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-thingamabob","tag-thingamajiggy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}