{"id":21,"date":"2009-06-06T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulschwake.com\/paulsblog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:30:23","slug":"out-of-control-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Out Of Control Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I propose that we clean up our act a little on the fad that we have going on where we purposely do things like use a \u201cz\u201d instead of an \u201cs\u201d (e.g. Petz instead of Pets) in our everyday spelling.\u00a0 I say we don\u2019t do it when it\u2019s for a product, movie, etc. where the market is for kidz, er sorry, kids.\u00a0 Don\u2019t we go to great lengths to teach kids to spell (at least they did when I was in school)?\u00a0 Then we turn around and purposely misspell things like \u201cAntz?\u201d\u00a0 What kind of an example does that set?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I propose that we clean up our act a little on the fad that we have going on where we purposely do things like use a \u201cz\u201d instead of an \u201cs\u201d (e.g. Petz instead of Pets) in our everyday spelling.\u00a0 I say we don\u2019t do it when it\u2019s for a product, movie, etc. where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}