{"id":26500,"date":"2014-06-25T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26500"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T16:03:00","slug":"long-live-the-oxford-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/long-live-the-oxford-comma\/","title":{"rendered":"Long live the Oxford Comma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/the-serial-comma-one-space-after-a-period-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Bunch<\/a> on the serial comma, single-spaces after periods and other pressing concerns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/datalab\/where-to-get-more-data-on-the-divisive-oxford-comma\/\" target=\"_blank\">Via 538<\/a>, I\u2019m proud to announce that those of us who support using the serial, or Oxford, comma are on The Right Side of History\u2122:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>The poll of 1,129 Americans, conducted from June 3 to 5, showed that the pro-Oxford comma crowd has a somewhat substantial lead overall: 57 percent to 43 percent. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Readers had asked how the responses broke down by age, so here\u2019s a chart to show who falls into each comma camp. The younger crowd overwhelmingly prefers the Oxford comma.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This makes sense, since refusing to use the Oxford comma is stupid and barbaric, a product of a bygone era. See also:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26501\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26501\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/The-Oxford-Comma.jpg\" alt=\"I don\u2019t know who made this originally, but they\u2019re a genius.\" width=\"500\" height=\"654\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/The-Oxford-Comma.jpg 500w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/The-Oxford-Comma-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/The-Oxford-Comma-458x600.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I don\u2019t know who made this originally, but they\u2019re a genius.<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Bunch on the serial comma, single-spaces after periods and other pressing concerns: Via 538, I\u2019m proud to announce that those of us who support using the serial, or Oxford, comma are on The Right Side of History\u2122: The poll of 1,129 Americans, conducted from June 3 to 5, showed that the pro-Oxford comma crowd [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[204,400,134],"class_list":["post-26500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-blogging","tag-language","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26502,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26500\/revisions\/26502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}