{"id":3147,"date":"2012-07-11T12:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T12:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2013-11-03T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T11:35:34","slug":"grand-west-casino-cares-about-apostrophes-as-much-as-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2012\/07\/grand-west-casino-cares-about-apostrophes-as-much-as-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"GrandWest Casino cares about apostrophes as much as I do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The punctuation\/grammar grinch in me was recently quite disturbed to find that the posters in GrandWest Casino&#8217;s foyer were headlined with <strong>Whats On<\/strong> instead of <strong>What&#8217;s On<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, thinking that the world had lost all hope of keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2012\/06\/my-kind-of-book-her-ladyships-guide-to-the-queens-english\/\">the Queen&#8217;s English<\/a> alive, I posted this tweet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonelk\/status\/221725729753276416\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture-190-e1342009358665.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"85\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3149\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from my tone, I was mostly talking out loud to the universe and didn&#8217;t expect a reply. Until this popped up on my timeline today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrandWestSA\/status\/223012339547521024\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture-193-e1342009507280.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"68\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I clicked on the photo link and this popped up:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gw.jpg 316w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gw-123x300.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easily the coolest brand response to a user on Twitter I&#8217;ve ever seen. Period (<em>yes, it&#8217;s a pun, because we&#8217;re talking about punctuation<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The punctuation\/grammar grinch in me was recently quite disturbed to find that the posters in GrandWest Casino&#8217;s foyer were headlined with Whats On instead of What&#8217;s On. So, thinking that the world had lost all hope of keeping the Queen&#8217;s English alive, I posted this tweet: As you can see from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}