{"id":513,"date":"2004-01-01T13:17:22","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/01\/eats_shoots_lea\/"},"modified":"2004-01-01T13:17:22","modified_gmt":"2004-01-01T13:17:22","slug":"eats_shoots_lea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/eats_shoots_lea\/","title":{"rendered":"Eats, Shoots &#038; Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to laugh at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1861976127\">book<\/a>. A terrible pun and yet a best-seller. I read it swiftly before Christmas, and I&#8217;d like to think that my punctuation is already improving as a result.<br \/>\nI know that I&#8217;m terrible at sticking dashes and brackets in all over the place, as I leap from one thought to another without structure. It&#8217;s probably a consequence of the way I write emails, and the fact that I barely ever read what I&#8217;ve written. That&#8217;s especially the case on this site, although when I post something on a message board somewhere, I&#8217;m a lot more fussy about re-reading my text. Maybe I should aspire to higher standards?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1861976127<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}