{"id":3251,"date":"2006-08-01T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T19:35:35","slug":"no-qa-in-raleigh-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/no-qa-in-raleigh-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"No QA in Raleigh, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If my current gig goes south and I ever get tired of not having a real winter in St. Louis and confuse North Carolina for a real northern state, I could get a job <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/102\/story\/463745.html\" target=\"_new\">proofreading street signs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pity the English teacher out for a drive, passing Raleigh street signs.<\/p>\n<p>Russling Leaf Lane? That&#8217;s Rustling.<\/p>\n<p>Sherrif Place? That&#8217;s Sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>Chinquoteague Court? Misty lived in Chincoteague!<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t even scribble corrections in red spray-paint. The city would just scrub them off.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen Raleigh street signs display words that are flat-out misspelled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who am I kidding?  There&#8217;s obviously no official sign proofreader position in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/triticale.mu.nu\/archives\/188490.php\" target=\"_new\">Triticale<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my current gig goes south and I ever get tired of not having a real winter in St. Louis and confuse North Carolina for a real northern state, I could get a job proofreading street signs: Pity the English teacher out for a drive, passing Raleigh street signs. Russling Leaf Lane? That&#8217;s Rustling. Sherrif [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16826,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/16826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}