{"id":756,"date":"2003-09-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/30\/ask-john-how-do-you-pronounce-di-gi-charat\/"},"modified":"2003-09-30T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-how-do-you-pronounce-di-gi-charat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-how-do-you-pronounce-di-gi-charat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: How Do You Pronounce Di-Gi-Charat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn response to an ongoing personal gripe, and my experience at the recent Anime Weekend Atlanta convention, I&#8217;m answering my own question today.  What is the proper pronunciation of &#8220;Di-Gi-Charat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe title of Broccoli&#8217;s famous mascot character franchise Di-Gi-Charat is an abbreviation of &#8220;Digital Character.&#8221; The title is not French.  It&#8217;s not pronounced &#8220;Di-Gi-Chare.&#8221; It&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;Di-Gi-Carrot.&#8221; It&#8217;s spelled phonetically in Katakana, &#8220;De-Ji-Kyarato.&#8221; Nyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: In response to an ongoing personal gripe, and my experience at the recent Anime Weekend Atlanta convention, I&#8217;m answering my own question today. What is the proper pronunciation of &#8220;Di-Gi-Charat?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}