{"id":1269,"date":"2008-05-13T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/in-defense-of-grammar-geeks\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:08:29","slug":"in-defense-of-grammar-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/in-defense-of-grammar-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"In defense of grammar geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatchcanada.blogspot.com\/\">Kerry<\/a>, #99 in the ongoing series of <a href=\"http:\/\/stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/12\/99-grammar\/\">Things White People Like:  Grammar.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nSheesh, can you believe there are people in the world who <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/category\/wordplay\/\">get frothed<\/a> over the use of the comma?  Or punctuation?  Or the last letter of the alphabet?  What kind of geek delights in discovering grammatical errors the same way kids love to find Easter Eggs?  <\/p>\n<p>*whistles tunelessly while looking obliquely to the left*<\/p>\n<p>Hmph.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n(P.S.  If you click through to read the article, be sure to scan the comments.  The original post is funny, but seeing how many people completely miss the satire and argue the rules of grammar &#8212; correctly and incorrectly &#8212; is priceless.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Kerry, #99 in the ongoing series of Things White People Like: Grammar. Sheesh, can you believe there are people in the world who get frothed over the use of the comma? Or punctuation? Or the last letter of the alphabet? What kind of geek delights in discovering grammatical errors the same way kids &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/in-defense-of-grammar-geeks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In defense of grammar geeks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,68,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-my-inner-geek","category-wordplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}