{"id":1757,"date":"2004-12-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T19:59:51","slug":"1757","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/06\/1757\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Dangerous Use of a Comma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the February 2004 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writermag.com\" target=\"_new\"><i>The Writer<\/i><\/a> in a column entitled &#8220;Writers in good company&#8221; by Benjamin Cheever:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why did I choose to be a writer?  I was born to the trade.  My father was a writer, my mother is, my sister.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whew, that was close.  The fellow was one comma away from saying <b><i>my mother is my sister<\/i><\/b>.  That&#8217;s demonstrating some faith that your copy editor isn&#8217;t passive-aggressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the February 2004 issue of The Writer in a column entitled &#8220;Writers in good company&#8221; by Benjamin Cheever: Why did I choose to be a writer? I was born to the trade. My father was a writer, my mother is, my sister. Whew, that was close. The fellow was one comma away from saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20802,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/20802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}