{"id":11203,"date":"2012-03-04T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T06:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=11203"},"modified":"2012-03-04T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:57:02","slug":"attention-word-nerds-march-forth-to-celebrate-national-grammar-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=11203","title":{"rendered":"Attention word nerds: March forth, to celebrate National Grammar Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/db.tt\/NeYycEJG\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most important and noteworthy celebrations of the year rarely gets enough notice on the calendar. But if you&#8217;re one of those who believes that grammar deserves more recognition than it typically gets today, please join me in celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalgrammarday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Grammar Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s March 4, so we&#8217;re to march forth &#8212; get it? &#8212; to celebrate our love of being obnoxious about correct word use &#8212; or at least what passes for correct these days.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to celebrate by making your computer desktop look stylish, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winepressofwords.com\/2012\/02\/a-free-collection-of-national-grammar-day-desktop-wallpapers\/\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s a collection of desktop wallpapers<\/a> that&#8217;s sure to attract some interest, including the simple design above, available in various colors.<\/p>\n<p>So embrace your nerddom. There are more of us than you might think, even if we make far too many errors to be especially cocky about it.<\/p>\n<p>Now go celebrate. March forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important and noteworthy celebrations of the year rarely gets enough notice on the calendar. But if you&#8217;re one of those who believes that grammar deserves more recognition than it typically gets today, please join me in celebrating National Grammar Day. It&#8217;s March 4, so we&#8217;re to march forth &#8212; get it? <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=11203\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-2UH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11203"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11211,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11203\/revisions\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}