{"id":685,"date":"2004-12-07T19:20:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=685"},"modified":"2004-12-07T19:20:19","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T19:20:19","slug":"eats_shoots_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Eats, Shoots And Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that I simply cannot stand are badly written e-mails.  And apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/What+corporate+America+cant+build+a+sentence\/2100-1030_3-5481494.html?tag=st.prev\">I&#8217;m not the only one<\/a>.  I know quite a few intelligent people who seem to have only a passing familiarity with the written English language.  Are we English majors the last line of protection against a world where capitalization and punctuation don&#8217;t exist?  I&#8217;ve tried writing sloppy e-mails when I&#8217;m pressed for time, but I can never bring myself to hit &#8220;Send.&#8221;  I always go back and edit everything.  Dr. Pennington, my Advanced Composition prof at St. Norbert, would be proud.<br \/>\nSomeone told me they tried posting a comment but that if was rejected for &#8220;inappropriate content.&#8221;  The hell?  Other than spammers, everyone is free to comment.  The dirtier, the better, in fact.  Is anyone else having this problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that I simply cannot stand are badly written e-mails. And apparently I&#8217;m not the only one. I know quite a few intelligent people who seem to have only a passing familiarity with the written English language. Are we English majors the last line of protection against a world where capitalization and punctuation don&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=685' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-b3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}