{"id":1231,"date":"2011-08-21T16:08:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2011-08-21T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:08:58","slug":"how-to-use-an-apostrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/how-to-use-an-apostrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use an apostrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite some time ago on this blog, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/28\/apostrophes-made-easy-well-easier\/ \">admitted<\/a> to not being completely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/au+fait\">au fait<\/a> with apostrophes. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing much has changed in the intervening time, mostly because I don\u2019t have the time to sit down and memorise the rules. I still have no problem with contractions (\u201cit is\u201d, \u201cit\u2019s\u201d) but struggle sometimes with possession. <\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that this will change though, as I\u2019ve discovered an excellent new resource. <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/apostrophe \">This comic<\/a> from The Oatmeal is both handy and amusing \u2013 the best kind of reference tool! An example: \u201cI saw two kittens riding a goat. Goats are great for transportation.\u201d Very cute illustrations too. Take a look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite some time ago on this blog, I admitted to not being completely au fait with apostrophes. Nothing much has changed in the intervening time, mostly because I don\u2019t have the time to sit down and memorise the rules. I still have no problem with contractions (\u201cit is\u201d, \u201cit\u2019s\u201d) but struggle sometimes with possession. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[29,1038,26,1039],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","category-hints-and-tips","tag-apostrophe","tag-apostrophe-usage","tag-grammar","tag-grammar-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}