{"id":4260,"date":"2013-08-18T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2013-11-03T10:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T10:35:48","slug":"finally-good-grammar-is-the-cool-kid-in-class-well-cool-enough-to-get-onto-buzzfeed-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2013\/08\/finally-good-grammar-is-the-cool-kid-in-class-well-cool-enough-to-get-onto-buzzfeed-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, good grammar is the cool kid in class. Well, cool enough to get onto BuzzFeed at least."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonelk\/status\/221725729753276416\" target=\"_blank\">this tweet of mine<\/a> about bad grammar in general, and missing apostrophes in particular, would lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2012\/07\/grand-west-casino-cares-about-apostrophes-as-much-as-i-do\/\">this response<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrandWestSA\/status\/223012339547521024\" target=\"_blank\">@GrandWestSA<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>Or that one day the whole hullabaloo would end up being featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ariellecalderon\/times-brands-showed-their-sassy-side-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">this article on BuzzFeed<\/a>, the viral content aggregator and afficianado of all things uber cool?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2012\/06\/my-kind-of-book-her-ladyships-guide-to-the-queens-english\/\">the Queen&#8217;s English<\/a> is making a comeback, and not a moment too soon as txt spk continues to pervade every device we touch. Good grammar FTW \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/ariellecalderon\/times-brands-showed-their-sassy-side-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-18-at-8.23.00-PM-580x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4261\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-18-at-8.23.00-PM-580x188.png 580w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-18-at-8.23.00-PM-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-18-at-8.23.00-PM.png 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that this tweet of mine about bad grammar in general, and missing apostrophes in particular, would lead to this response from @GrandWestSA? Or that one day the whole hullabaloo would end up being featured in this article on BuzzFeed, the viral content aggregator and afficianado of all things uber&#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\/4260"}],"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=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}