{"id":461,"date":"2012-05-31T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=461"},"modified":"2012-05-31T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T01:57:12","slug":"hopefully-ill-come-up-with-some-of-my-own-content-one-of-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully I&#8217;ll Come Up With Some of My Own Content One of These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But in the meantime, I just had to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3988#more-3988\">this post<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/\">Language Log<\/a>, which is the latest in a series of posts on &#8220;hopefully&#8221;, just because of the line <em>That\u2019s what usage fetishism can drive you to\u2014you cross out an adverb and replace it with a six-word impersonal passive construction and you tell yourself you\u2019ve improved your writing<\/em>, which I believe is the best quote ever.\u00a0 I&#8217;m ashamed to admit, though, that I was largely unaware of the prohibition against &#8220;hopefully&#8221;, and was just going around using it.\u00a0 This in contrast similar zombie rules against split infinitives or ending a sentence with a preposition, or the gender-neutral singular &#8220;their&#8221; which I was well aware of and cheerfully ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in the meantime, I just had to link to this post in Language Log, which is the latest in a series of posts on &#8220;hopefully&#8221;, just because of the line That\u2019s what usage fetishism can drive you to\u2014you cross out an adverb and replace it with a six-word impersonal passive construction and you tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}