{"id":38,"date":"2005-09-26T21:14:50","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T01:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=38"},"modified":"2005-09-26T21:14:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T01:14:50","slug":"eats-shoots-leaves-the-zero-tolerance-approach-to-punctuation-by-lynne-trussgotham-books-2004-originally-profile-books-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/eats-shoots-leaves-the-zero-tolerance-approach-to-punctuation-by-lynne-trussgotham-books-2004-originally-profile-books-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Eats, Shoots, &#038; Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne TrussGotham Books, 2004 (originally Profile Books, 2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I saw a cash register with a scrolling display that made me want to scream: &#8220;Thank&#8217;s for shoping at [store name].&#8221; Errors in spelling and punctuation jump out at me and grate on my nerves: it&#8217;d be fair to say that I&#8217;m a stickler when it comes to language and its usage. Somehow, though, I didn&#8217;t like this book nearly as much as I thought I would. There were clever moments, and I liked reading about the origins and histories of the various punctuation marks (e.g. &#8220;in the 16th century, Erasmus gave the attractive name <i>lunulae<\/i> to round brackets, in reference to their moon-like profile&#8221;), but overall, this book struck me as flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, I saw a cash register with a scrolling display that made me want to scream: &#8220;Thank&#8217;s for shoping at [store name].&#8221; Errors in spelling and punctuation jump out at me and grate on my nerves: it&#8217;d be fair to say that I&#8217;m a stickler when it comes to language and its usage. Somehow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}