{"id":2373,"date":"2005-06-13T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2018-06-01T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:14:04","slug":"lack-of-style-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/13\/lack-of-style-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Style Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael J. Totten reads the <i>Microsoft Manual of Style<\/i> so you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/000846.html\" target=\"_new\">don&#8217;t have to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile flipping through the book I noticed Taiwan, of all things, had its own entry. Taiwan, according to Microsoft\u2026wait for it\u2026 belongs to China. Totalitarian propaganda has actually made its way into a style guide for user manual and Help file writers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone want to bet what the Encarta encyclopedia and dictionaries say?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I won&#8217;t bet, because if I did, I&#8217;d have to use those &#8220;tools&#8221; as reference material if only to settle the bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael J. Totten reads the Microsoft Manual of Style so you don&#8217;t have to: While flipping through the book I noticed Taiwan, of all things, had its own entry. Taiwan, according to Microsoft\u2026wait for it\u2026 belongs to China. Totalitarian propaganda has actually made its way into a style guide for user manual and Help file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","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=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19970,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions\/19970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}