{"id":756,"date":"2013-03-26T18:29:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=756"},"modified":"2013-03-26T18:29:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:29:43","slug":"the-internet-makes-everything-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Makes Everything Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-773\" alt=\"grammar_rules\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/grammar_rules.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"226\" \/>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=630\">posted <\/a>a few times on <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=168\">grammar rules<\/a>, or more specifically on <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=388\">things that aren&#8217;t rules even though people act like they are<\/a>.\u00a0 So here is <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/240882\/7-bogus-grammar-errors-you-dont-need-to-worry-about\">one more post about bogus grammar rules<\/a>, and as usual, the fact that it is on the Internet makes it far more interesting.\u00a0 If I were just to retype the rules, or print them out on a piece of paper and hand them to you, well, that&#8217;s just a list of anti-rules, really.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But because these particular anti-rules are on a website, you can enjoy the comments.\u00a0 Because nothing makes a post about pointless rules that only need to be followed because of pedantry more amusing than comments.\u00a0 My personal favorites are the vigorous back and forth about &#8220;I could care less&#8221;.\u00a0 If someone is already lacks a sense of humor and insists on taking everything <em>very seriously indeed<\/em>, it is sort of difficult to explain an interpretation of a phrase that relies on a sarcastic inflection, but there are those who gamely try.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The person correcting the grammar in the lyrics of a song by Beck are also fairly amusing, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oh, and from the same source: <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/241847\/10-old-fashioned-swears-to-spice-up-your-cussin#\">a delightful set of old-fashioned swears<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted a few times on grammar rules, or more specifically on things that aren&#8217;t rules even though people act like they are.\u00a0 So here is one more post about bogus grammar rules, and as usual, the fact that it is on the Internet makes it far more interesting.\u00a0 If I were just to retype [&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-756","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\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}