{"id":310,"date":"2007-01-24T07:56:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T06:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=310"},"modified":"2007-01-24T07:56:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T06:56:18","slug":"ever-heard-of-the-serial-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of the serial comma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that this may seem strange but I&#8217;ve just had an e-mail from someone in the USA asking my view on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serial_comma\">the serial comma<\/a>. This arises from my web page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/punctuation.html\">&#8220;How To Use Punctuation&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo, what is the serial comma?  The serial comma is the comma used immediately before a grammatical conjunction (nearly always &#8216;and&#8217; or &#8216;or&#8217;) that precedes the last item in a list of three or more items. For example: &#8216;one, two<b>,<\/b> and three&#8217;.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t feature in my advice on punctuation because I don&#8217;t support it&#8217;s use on the grounds that it is redundant. It&#8217;s not up there with my views on whether there is a God, but I thought that you&#8217;d like to know &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that this may seem strange but I&#8217;ve just had an e-mail from someone in the USA asking my view on the serial comma. This arises from my web page &#8220;How To Use Punctuation&#8221;. So, what is the serial comma? The serial comma is the comma used immediately before a grammatical conjunction (nearly always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","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\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}