{"id":12985,"date":"2008-06-28T13:49:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12985"},"modified":"2014-01-16T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:11:55","slug":"do-i-sound-like-alan-arkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/28\/do-i-sound-like-alan-arkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I sound like Alan Arkin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in a conference call earlier this week which turned strange.  When someone  commented that I sounded exactly like Alan Arkin, the other participants all chimed in with words of agreement, including people I&#8217;d known for many years.  <\/p>\n<p>There was a period in my life when many people told me that I looked like Elliott Gould, but no one&#151;before this call&#151;had ever told me that my voice sounded similar to anyone else&#8217;s.  And to suddenly have half a dozen people agree that I could be mistaken for Alan Arkin &#8230; well,  I felt as if I&#8217;d gotten caught in the middle of a mass hallucination.<\/p>\n<p>So I turn to you all to ask&#151;<\/p>\n<p>Do I sound like Alan Arkin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took part in a conference call earlier this week which turned strange. When someone commented that I sounded exactly like Alan Arkin, the other participants all chimed in with words of agreement, including people I&#8217;d known for many years. There was a period in my life when many people told me that I looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12987,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985\/revisions\/12987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}