{"id":7903,"date":"2012-06-21T08:36:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2012-06-21T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:36:29","slug":"why-this-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7903","title":{"rendered":"Why this matters: &#8216;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Helping your uncle jack off a horse&#8230;<br \/>\nand,<br \/>\nHelping your Uncle Jack off a horse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>is the correct use of capitals. The difference between:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your a lovely person&#8230;<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re a lovely person&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>is the correct application of human intelligence. It&#8217;s that simple. Really.<\/p>\n<p>I know I am guilty of using and abusing the English language (as, for reasons of emphasis or dramatic phrasing) many writers, over the years, have.<\/p>\n<p>But I am considering starting an e-Petition to have those who are\u00a0guilty of failing to use the apostrophe correctly, sent to the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n<p>For life.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, failing to correctly use an apostrophe is either a sign of abject laziness, or it is a symptom of a failing IQ.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, people who can&#8217;t get to grips with the rules around this simple piece of punctuation are not welcome here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The difference between: Helping your uncle jack off a horse&#8230; and, Helping your Uncle Jack off a horse&#8230; is the correct use of capitals. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}