{"id":5069,"date":"2004-02-11T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/11\/5069\/"},"modified":"2004-02-11T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T20:07:14","slug":"kah-rah-oh-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5069","title":{"rendered":"Kah Rah Oh Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say the word <i>karaoke<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Did you say &#8220;Carry-Oakie&#8221;?  BAD!  That&#8217;s how hick Americans say it.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The proper way is KAH RAH OH KAY.  Short KAY- it&#8217;s close to KEH.  Don&#8217;t stress any syllable over another; this isn&#8217;t French.  Say it like a robot.  <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<i>ka ra o ke<\/i> .<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Actually you know more Japanese than you think.  You know the word <i>karate<\/i>?  Not only does it sound similar, but the <i>kara<\/i> part of that word is the same word.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<ul>\n<lI><i>kara te<\/i> is &#8220;empty hand&#8221;- a way of fighting that does not include weapons, which you hold in your hand<\/lI><\/p>\n<li><i>kara oke<\/i> is short for <i>kara okesutora<\/i> which is Engrish for <i>kara<\/i> ORCHESTRA-  &#8220;empty orchestra.&#8221;  Like the music is there but the musicians are not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You dig?  Okay lesson over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say the word karaoke. Did you say &#8220;Carry-Oakie&#8221;? BAD! That&#8217;s how hick Americans say it. The proper way is KAH RAH OH KAY. Short KAY- it&#8217;s close to KEH. Don&#8217;t stress any syllable over another; this isn&#8217;t French. Say it like a robot. ka ra o ke . Actually you know more Japanese than you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}