{"id":8493,"date":"2013-09-09T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/blasted-typos\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T15:00:23","slug":"blasted-typos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/blasted-typos\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasted Typos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I am astonished at my poor ability to spot typographical errors despite my assiduous exercise of what is pleonastically referred to as &#39;due diligence.&#39;&#0160; I see what I bloody well want to see.&#0160; I read the following a good dozen times and failed to see the mistake:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Astinence is no mark of a rounder<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">which I just now corrected to <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Abstinence is no mark of a rounder<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">which is my response to Jeff Hodges&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Absinthe makes the heart go founder.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><br \/>\nBut I can&#39;t hold a candle to my old friend Monterey Tom, the undisputed master of the typo, as he demonstrates <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/09\/why-typos-dont-matter-and-the-musical-watershed-that-was-the-fifties.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am astonished at my poor ability to spot typographical errors despite my assiduous exercise of what is pleonastically referred to as &#39;due diligence.&#39;&#0160; I see what I bloody well want to see.&#0160; I read the following a good dozen times and failed to see the mistake: Astinence is no mark of a rounder which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/blasted-typos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blasted Typos!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}