{"id":159,"date":"2006-01-28T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2006-01-28T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T11:04:26","slug":"the-essential-guide-for-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"The essential guide for English usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do a lot of writing, and wherever I write I always carry one indispensible grammar guide &#8211; and that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/141\/strunk1.html\">Strunk and White&#8217;s Elements of Style<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More concise than Fowler&#8217;s <em>The King&#8217;s English<\/em>; Clearer than the <em>MLA guidelines<\/em>, the <em>Elements of Style<\/em> is the ultimate guide to spotting split infinitives and the correct use of the apostrophe. <\/p>\n<p>Strunk uses a terse declarative style which is clear and unambiguous &#8211; and there is not a single extraneous word in the whole book &#8211; and it&#8217;s all online \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do a lot of writing, and wherever I write I always carry one indispensible grammar guide &#8211; and that is Strunk and White&#8217;s Elements of Style. More concise than Fowler&#8217;s The King&#8217;s English; Clearer than the MLA guidelines, the Elements of Style is the ultimate guide to spotting split infinitives and the correct use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}