{"id":1317,"date":"2008-06-18T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2008-06-18T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:52:00","slug":"people-please-learn-some-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"PEOPLE, PLEASE LEARN SOME GRAMMAR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_FtpS7UUhDjk\/SFlnyp_S-NI\/AAAAAAAAAGM\/oUYD1TeB4PQ\/s1600-h\/2590212179_5ee8e5a942.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_FtpS7UUhDjk\/SFlnyp_S-NI\/AAAAAAAAAGM\/oUYD1TeB4PQ\/s320\/2590212179_5ee8e5a942.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213312163620518098\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had lunch with Kyra today. We drove by a Wendy&#8217;s billboard &#038; I asked her if she&#8217;d seen the pic I&#8217;d posted on my blog, and she had &#8211; we were laughing about it, and she said she&#8217;d had an English teacher who had showed them a full page newspaper ad that said something to the effect, &#8220;Your On The Right Track&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Two hours later, she text messaged me to look at her Flickr. Yup. This is going to put me in the nuthouse, some folks look for the second coming or a rapture, but my alarm bells are signs like these, pointing to the decline of language and writing in this country. Hell, I almost prefer text-message spelling, because it&#8217;s at least a puzzle and doesn&#8217;t pretend to be proper English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with Kyra today. We drove by a Wendy&#8217;s billboard &#038; I asked her if she&#8217;d seen the pic I&#8217;d posted on my blog, and she had &#8211; we were laughing about it, and she said she&#8217;d had an English teacher who had showed them a full page newspaper ad that said something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}