{"id":1488,"date":"2007-10-02T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T12:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2007-10-02T07:44:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T12:44:28","slug":"priceless-grammatical-error-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/02\/priceless-grammatical-error-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Priceless grammatical error of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveu.org\/012229-yes-i-am-a-tree-hugger-and-this-is-how-it-happened\">From a teen&#8217;s account of visiting Yellowstone: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>Our next stop was what we had come here to see: the infamous Old Faithful geyser. Scheduled to erupt every 92 minutes, we waited impatiently.<\/blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>I know if I were scheduled to erupt every 92 minutes, I&#8217;d be impatient too!<br \/>\n<P>(For those who&#8217;ve forgotten their grammar lessons, the second sentence is called a dangling participle &#8230; it&#8217;s one of my favorite boo-boos because it generates fun constructions like this one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a teen&#8217;s account of visiting Yellowstone: Our next stop was what we had come here to see: the infamous Old Faithful geyser. Scheduled to erupt every 92 minutes, we waited impatiently. I know if I were scheduled to erupt&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/10\/02\/priceless-grammatical-error-of-the-day\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}