{"id":939,"date":"2013-09-26T19:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=939"},"modified":"2013-09-26T19:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:46:20","slug":"939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewrecks.com\/home\/2011\/9\/22\/the-wonders-of-punctuation.htmlhttp:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-940\" alt=\"parenthesesCake\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/parenthesesCake-276x300.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/parenthesesCake-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/parenthesesCake.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>Sorry, everyone &#8211; I forgot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpunctuationday.com\/\">national punctuation day<\/a> when I posted on Tuesday, as you all no doubt noticed.\u00a0 Of course, the problem with punctuation is that there isn&#8217;t all that much to say about it, beyond complaining about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apostrophecatastrophes.com\/\">misuse of apostrophes<\/a>, and perhaps the overuse of exclamation points.\u00a0 Beyond that, most people are fairly well in agreement on the issues.\u00a0 Oh, sure, some people have an irrational prejudice against the humble semicolon.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t have that here, though; the semicolon is awesome.\u00a0 And yes, some folks don&#8217;t like the Oxford comma (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxford_Comma_%28song%29\">or just don&#8217;t care about it<\/a>), but these poor fools are <a title=\"This Is Why One Should Just Accept the Oxford Comma\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=734\">simply misguided<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll just leave you with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewrecks.com\/home\/2011\/9\/22\/the-wonders-of-punctuation.html\">punctuation page<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewrecks.com\/\">cakewrecks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, everyone &#8211; I forgot national punctuation day when I posted on Tuesday, as you all no doubt noticed.\u00a0 Of course, the problem with punctuation is that there isn&#8217;t all that much to say about it, beyond complaining about the misuse of apostrophes, and perhaps the overuse of exclamation points.\u00a0 Beyond that, most people are [&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-939","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\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}