{"id":179771,"date":"2017-10-30T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/30\/for-want-of-a-hyphen-a-kingdom-was-lost\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T22:56:00","slug":"for-want-of-a-hyphen-a-kingdom-was-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/30\/for-want-of-a-hyphen-a-kingdom-was-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"For Want of a Hyphen, a Kingdom Was Lost\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Headline of the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e41IXo4Tsy\">pic.twitter.com\/e41IXo4Tsy<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Derf Backderf (@DerfBackderf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DerfBackderf\/status\/924802916094967809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First we see the <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2017\/03\/the-oxford-comma-bitches-it-just-works.html\">consequences of people dropping the Oxford comma<\/a>, and now we seen the consequence of not knowing how to use a hyphen (and how the elimination of copy editors has impacted journalism, but that is a separate rant).<a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pwYFgAp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pwYFgAp.jpg\" width=\"5&quot;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline of the day. pic.twitter.com\/e41IXo4Tsy \u2014 Derf Backderf (@DerfBackderf) October 30, 2017 First we see the consequences of people dropping the Oxford comma, and now we seen the consequence of not knowing how to use a hyphen (and how the elimination of copy editors has impacted journalism, but that is a separate rant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,400,523,515],"class_list":["post-179771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-funny","tag-journalism","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}