{"id":734,"date":"2013-02-21T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=734"},"modified":"2013-02-21T07:49:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T12:49:26","slug":"this-is-why-one-should-just-accept-the-oxford-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why One Should Just Accept the Oxford Comma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-745\" alt=\"serialComma\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/serialComma.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/serialComma.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/serialComma-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Usually, of course, grammar disputes just result in grumpy people <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?cat=62\">getting their knickers in a twist over something unimportant<\/a>, but from the Onion comes this story of the true tragedy that can result <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/4-copy-editors-killed-in-ongoing-ap-style-chicago,30806\/\">when these sorts of disagreements get out of hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, clearly, everyone should just settle down and not get worked up over grammar.\u00a0 Except about the Oxford comma, of course &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/012652.html\"> that&#8217;s important, as my parents, Ayn Rand and God will attest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, of course, grammar disputes just result in grumpy people getting their knickers in a twist over something unimportant, but from the Onion comes this story of the true tragedy that can result when these sorts of disagreements get out of hand. So, clearly, everyone should just settle down and not get worked up over [&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-734","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\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}