{"id":19824,"date":"2016-06-01T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19824"},"modified":"2016-06-01T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:14:48","slug":"the-continuing-debate-over-the-oxford-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19824","title":{"rendered":"The continuing debate over the Oxford comma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know what the Oxford comma is, why it&#8217;s called that, and why it&#8217;s controversial, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2016\/may\/31\/exam-board-rules-punctuation-wrong-oxford-comma\">this short news item<\/a> explains all. If you already know what I&#8217;m talking about, you probably have an opinion on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know my view on the Oxford comma, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/punctuation.html\">my advice on punctuation<\/a> &#8211; look at Note 4 under the sub-heading &#8216;How to use the comma&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the kind of issue that will decide the EU referendum in the UK or the presidential election in the US, but it does excite teachers, educationalists, linguists and others [note that I didn&#8217;t use the Oxford comma there].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t know what the Oxford comma is, why it&#8217;s called that, and why it&#8217;s controversial, this short news item explains all. If you already know what I&#8217;m talking about, you probably have an opinion on the subject. If you want to know my view on the Oxford comma, check out my advice on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19827,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19824\/revisions\/19827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}