{"id":408,"date":"2006-04-20T05:36:42","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T10:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2006-04-20T05:36:42","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T10:36:42","slug":"now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2006\/04\/now-for-something-completely-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Now for something completely different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proper use of punctuation is an increasingly rare and embattled art in the shrinking global world.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askoxford.com\/asktheexperts\/faq\/aboutother\/oxfordcomma?view=uk\">Oxford comma<\/a> stands as the most prevalent example of disagreements between U.S. English and UK English speakers.  The comma itself, though, comes with baggage.<\/p>\n<p>I once had a well-educated, UK-based friend inquire about why I placed commas between adjectives in series when the adjectives all modified the same noun.  This lovely e-mail subject line, culled from my bulk folder at Yahoo!, is the perfect illustration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Get A Huge Pornstar Penis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now&#8230;I know they mean a huge penis but without the comma they&#8217;ve got me thinking about obese male pornstars.   Not really fun thoughts for me either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proper use of punctuation is an increasingly rare and embattled art in the shrinking global world. The Oxford comma stands as the most prevalent example of disagreements between U.S. English and UK English speakers. The comma itself, though, comes with baggage. I once had a well-educated, UK-based friend inquire about why I placed commas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}