{"id":1438,"date":"2009-09-30T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T06:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2009-09-30T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T06:04:19","slug":"1438","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Could someone please explain to me how “imma” got into our culture’s general vocabulary? \u00a0Really, “imma?” \u00a0Give me a break…<\/p>\n

I don’t even understand what it means. \u00a0A ghetto contraction for “I’m a” \u00a0 or.. “I’m going to” \u00a0… ?<\/p>\n

and to think, we make fun of the British for calling fries “chips”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could someone please explain to me how “imma” got into our culture’s general vocabulary? \u00a0Really, “imma?” \u00a0Give me a break… I don’t even understand what it means. \u00a0A ghetto contraction for “I’m a” \u00a0 or.. “I’m going to” \u00a0… ? and to think, we make fun of the British for calling fries “chips”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}