{"id":166,"date":"2006-07-20T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-07-20T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T18:43:00","slug":"grammar-nazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/grammar-nazi","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Nazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwins_law\" target=\"_blank\">Godwin&#8217;s Law<\/a>, I&#8217;ve already lost my argument by starting this post with a comparison to Nazis. Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The written word comes easier for some people, but definitely not all. Hell, I know for certain that I&#8217;m far from following all the rules and best practices. One of the things that is very important to me is the correct <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">usage<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=14060390&amp;postID=115342100003173264\" target=\"_blank\">thanks anonymous<\/a>!) of words &#8211; spelling and grammar. I read <a href=\"http:\/\/insight.zdnet.co.uk\/0,39020415,39273376,00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> about some common grammar mistakes that I thought might be helpful for some people to read.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond simple grammar, people often use words that sound the same in the wrong place. <a href=\"http:\/\/writing2.richmond.edu\/writing\/wweb\/conford.html\" target=\"_blank\">This web page<\/a> has a pretty good list and description of how they&#8217;re meant to be used.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. My anal-retentive tendencies have gotten the best of me and now I&#8217;m getting persnickety.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><small>This entry is afraid too know if your going to hate him allot for pointing out spelling and grammar mistakes. Heed hate to loose any friends!<\/small><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, according to Godwin&#8217;s Law, I&#8217;ve already lost my argument by starting this post with a comparison to Nazis. Oh well&#8230; The written word comes easier for some people, but definitely not all. Hell, I know for certain that I&#8217;m far from following all the rules and best practices. One of the things that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standlikeaman.com\/gabe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}