{"id":9832,"date":"2013-12-25T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9832"},"modified":"2013-12-26T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:00:42","slug":"its-simples-simples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=9832","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s simples, simples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, it really is very, very simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s &#8216;there&#8217; or it&#8217;s &#8216;their&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s &#8216;we&#8217;re&#8217; or it&#8217;s &#8216;were&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s &#8216;it&#8217;s&#8217; or it&#8217;s &#8216;its&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My 16yo daughter knows the rules behind each of these alternatives (and their correct uses), and she lives in a country where English is not the first language.<\/p>\n<p>Why are some people who were born, and educated, in the UK, incapable of following some simple grammatical rules?<\/p>\n<p>Are these people stupid?<\/p>\n<p>Or are these people lazy?<\/p>\n<p>The answer must, surely, be one of these?<\/p>\n<p>I know people who are diagnosed with dyslexia, who get these simple rules right.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not look for excuses, let&#8217;s look for answers.<\/p>\n<p>Why are some people incapable of speaking (and using) their language correctly?<\/p>\n<p>Is that too much to expect?<\/p>\n<p>That the people who were born and educated here would be able to speak and use their home language correctly?<\/p>\n<p>Is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, it really is very, very simple: It&#8217;s &#8216;there&#8217; or it&#8217;s &#8216;their&#8217; It&#8217;s &#8216;we&#8217;re&#8217; or it&#8217;s &#8216;were&#8217; It&#8217;s &#8216;it&#8217;s&#8217; or it&#8217;s &#8216;its&#8217; My 16yo daughter<\/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-9832","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\/9832","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=9832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}