{"id":531,"date":"2005-09-17T20:04:47-04:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T01:04:47+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2005-09-17T20:08:19-04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T01:08:19+00:00","slug":"semicolonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/09\/17\/semicolonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Semicolonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0ca549d2-25a9-11da-a4a7-00000e2511c8.html\" title=\"Michael Tomasky\"><p>If I were linguistic emperor, not only would semicolons be mandatory, but we\u2019d all be writing like [Thomas] Carlyle: massive 130-word sentences that were mad concatenations of em dashes, colons, semicolons, parentheticals, asides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p class=\"via\">via <a rev=\"via\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2005\/09\/17\/Semicolons\">Tim Bray<\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If I were linguistic emperor, not only would semicolons be mandatory, but we\u2019d all be writing like [Thomas] Carlyle: massive 130-word sentences that were mad concatenations of em dashes, colons, semicolons, parentheticals, asides. via Tim Bray","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}