{"id":164,"date":"2014-07-07T23:07:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T23:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2014-07-07T23:07:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T23:07:26","slug":"the-oxford-comma-clear-useful-and-validated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"The Oxford Comma: Clear, Useful, and Validated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-172\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/oxfordComma-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"oxfordComma\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/oxfordComma-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/oxfordComma-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/oxfordComma.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>538.com has done a <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/elitist-superfluous-or-popular-we-polled-americans-on-the-oxford-comma\/\">survey about the Oxford comma<\/a>, and come up with some interesting results. \u00a0Americans only prefer it by a small margin, which seems strange at first, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=734\">given how useful it is<\/a>. \u00a0Why wouldn&#8217;t it be overwhelmingly favord, you are no doubt wondering. \u00a0Well, it sort of becomes more clear if you dig into the statistics, as these things often do. \u00a0A careful read shows that people who don&#8217;t like the Oxford comma tend to be the sort of people who don&#8217;t know what it is. \u00a0As such, they may be simply reacting to the word &#8220;Oxford&#8221;. \u00a0Sad, but can you really blame them?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>538.com has done a survey about the Oxford comma, and come up with some interesting results. \u00a0Americans only prefer it by a small margin, which seems strange at first, given how useful it is. \u00a0Why wouldn&#8217;t it be overwhelmingly favord, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=164\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-2E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}