{"id":1730,"date":"2008-05-27T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2010-09-23T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:03:58","slug":"itses-to-itses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2008\/05\/27\/itses-to-itses\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;ses to itses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve been using a Greasemonkey script to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/chi-typo-guys-0521may21,0,701362.story\">fix the most prevalent spelling mistakes<\/a> on the Interwebs. Incorrect apostrophes are particularly painful, particularly prevalent and also particularly cumbersome to fix &mdash; the latter two being due to the complexity of the rules governing the use of apostrophes, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>To tackle this, I&#8217;ve now adopted brute tactics: I simply replace each instance of <q>it&#8217;s<\/q> with an <q>its<\/q>. So far I must say it has felt less painful to encounter an <q>its<\/q> which should have been an <q>it&#8217;s<\/q> than it is the other way round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve been using a Greasemonkey script to fix the most prevalent spelling mistakes on the Interwebs. Incorrect apostrophes are particularly painful, particularly prevalent and also particularly cumbersome to fix &mdash; the latter two being due to the complexity of the rules governing the use of apostrophes, obviously. To tackle this, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}