{"id":7910,"date":"2011-12-18T18:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2011-12-19T00:13:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T08:13:24","slug":"the-seuss-in-dr-seuss-is-supposed-to-be-pronounced-zoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/the-seuss-in-dr-seuss-is-supposed-to-be-pronounced-zoice\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Seuss&#8221; in Dr. Seuss is Supposed to Be Pronounced &#8220;Zoice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dr-seuss-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7913\" title=\"dr-seuss-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dr-seuss-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dr-seuss-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dr-seuss-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The proper pronunciation of &#8220;Seuss&#8221;, as in Dr. Suess, is actually &#8220;Zoice&#8221; (rhymes with &#8220;voice&#8221;), being a Bavarian name (after Theodore Geisel&#8217;s mother&#8217;s maiden name).\u00a0 However, due to the fact that most Americans pronounced it incorrectly as &#8220;Soose&#8221;, Geisel later gave in and stopped correcting people, even quipping the mispronunciation was a good thing because it is &#8220;advantageous for an author of children&#8217;s books to be associated with\u2014Mother Goose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dr. Seuss facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/dr-seuss-wrote-green-eggs-and-ham-on-a-bet-that-he-couldnt-write-a-book-with-50-or-fewer-words\/\">Sources and Further Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proper pronunciation of &#8220;Seuss&#8221;, as in Dr. Suess, is actually &#8220;Zoice&#8221; (rhymes with &#8220;voice&#8221;), being a Bavarian name (after Theodore Geisel&#8217;s mother&#8217;s maiden name).\u00a0 However, due to the fact that most Americans pronounced it incorrectly as &#8220;Soose&#8221;, Geisel later gave in and stopped correcting people, even quipping the mispronunciation was a good thing because it is &#8220;advantageous for an [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1358,1607],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-dr-seuss-facts","tag-seuss-pronunciation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}