{"id":846,"date":"2004-04-21T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2018-08-12T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T15:36:07","slug":"846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/846\/","title":{"rendered":"Punct&#8217;ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey at Bad Money speaks <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0126975\/2004\/04\/20.html#a2102\" target=\"new\"><strike>word<\/strike> punctuation to power<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The purpose of punctuation is to reproduce the pauses and vocal inflections of the spoken word, thus allowing the writer&#8217;s intended meaning to be made as clearly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>It is a servant, not a master, so use it any way you wish, as long as it helps you get your point across.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, let him try to convince my mother-in-law, the former English teacher.  Good luck, Harv.  I&#8217;ll be behind you with a dust pan, ready to collect your pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey at Bad Money speaks word punctuation to power: The purpose of punctuation is to reproduce the pauses and vocal inflections of the spoken word, thus allowing the writer&#8217;s intended meaning to be made as clearly as possible. It is a servant, not a master, so use it any way you wish, as long as [&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-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22785,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/22785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}