{"id":484,"date":"2006-09-08T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/08\/wax-in-my-grammar-ear-or-someone-elses"},"modified":"2007-10-21T01:36:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T22:36:49","slug":"wax-in-my-grammar-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/08\/wax-in-my-grammar-ear","title":{"rendered":"Wax in my grammar ear &#8211; or someone else&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly this started to bother me a lot. I surf to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.com\">WordPress.com<\/a> and on the front page it says: &#8220;Why Blog? <em>All the cool kids are.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t make sense, does it? All the cool kids are blogs? Is this correct language in some young and hip native-English speaker sort of way that is designed to baffle the non-natives, or should it in fact be &#8220;All the cool kids <em>do<\/em>.&#8221;? In my mind, &#8216;are&#8217; requires a gerund: &#8220;Why should I be <em>blogging<\/em>? All the cool kids are!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t (luckily?) a &#8220;Click here to nitpick&#8221; link on the site, so I&#8217;ll just complain about it here. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly this started to bother me a lot. I surf to WordPress.com and on the front page it says: &#8220;Why Blog? All the cool kids are.&#8221; That doesn&#8217;t make sense, does it? All the cool kids are blogs? Is this correct language in some young and hip native-English speaker sort of way that is designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}