{"id":4377,"date":"2008-04-20T02:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2017-11-11T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T23:19:29","slug":"too-far-along-the-line-for-whats-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/20\/too-far-along-the-line-for-whats-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Far Along The Line For What&#8217;s Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Missouri license plates contain a grammatical error.  Who cares?  Well, some of us, but not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/columnists.nsf\/alongfortheride\/story\/B72AC54B7027946C862574300014B0B7?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">officials in charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The plate, featuring a bluebird perched on a hawthorn branch, was the landslide winner of an Internet vote last year among three plate designs. During the competition, the words &#8220;Show Me State&#8221; ran vertically along the right side of the plate. Vertically, there was no graceful spot for the hyphen.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the state found that the vertical placement caused production problems, so the slogan was moved to a horizontal position near the top of the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Because the words &#8220;show&#8221; and &#8220;me&#8221; form a compound modifier for the word &#8220;state,&#8221; they should be joined by a hyphen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Official response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Griffith, spokesman at the Missouri Department of Revenue, said the state doesn&#8217;t consider the lack of punctuation a fatal flaw and won&#8217;t be replacing the plates. &#8220;We&#8217;re too far down the line,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes me glad my children won&#8217;t participate in an educational system run by a government where mistakes <i>too far down the line<\/i> won&#8217;t be corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Missouri license plates contain a grammatical error. Who cares? Well, some of us, but not the officials in charge. The problem? The plate, featuring a bluebird perched on a hawthorn branch, was the landslide winner of an Internet vote last year among three plate designs. During the competition, the words &#8220;Show Me State&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","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=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17512,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/17512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}