{"id":4856,"date":"2009-06-18T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2016-11-29T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T19:57:58","slug":"sharing-a-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/18\/sharing-a-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing A Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have shared triumphs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacquelinegetshergeekon.com\/2009\/06\/im-an-evangelist-for-the-serial-comma.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And finally, after months of cajoling and correcting, I seem to have made a convert!  I just edited a draft document in which the writer used the serial comma consistently throughout!  Also, another one is halfway there &#8212; he seems to get the general concept, but is confused about the placement of the final comma in relation to the &#8220;and&#8221; &#8212; he writes, &#8220;thing, thing and, thing&#8221; instead of &#8220;thing, thing, and thing.&#8221;  But at least now I can tell how many items he intended to list, so that&#8217;s an improvement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I beat that into enough designers that they do it correctly, years later and in different positions.  And if only one of them passes the lesson on, I&#8217;m totally reaping the Amway benefits of knowledge-spreading.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/8478\" target=\"_blank\">Dustbury<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have shared triumphs like this: And finally, after months of cajoling and correcting, I seem to have made a convert! I just edited a draft document in which the writer used the serial comma consistently throughout! Also, another one is halfway there &#8212; he seems to get the general concept, but is confused about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","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=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16004,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/16004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}