{"id":9552,"date":"2012-07-17T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/17\/double-contractions\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:52:13","slug":"double-contractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/17\/double-contractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Contractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Scowled upon by schoolmarms for generations, contractions are now seen in formal writing.&#0160; But formal writing, or what passes for such, has not yet sunk to the use of what I will call double contractions such as &#39;shouldn&#39;t&#39;ve&#39; and &#39;couldn&#39;t&#39;ve.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But the &#0160;times they are a changin&#39; and with them the language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scowled upon by schoolmarms for generations, contractions are now seen in formal writing.&#0160; But formal writing, or what passes for such, has not yet sunk to the use of what I will call double contractions such as &#39;shouldn&#39;t&#39;ve&#39; and &#39;couldn&#39;t&#39;ve.&#39; But the &#0160;times they are a changin&#39; and with them the language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552","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=9552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}