{"id":6951,"date":"2009-09-25T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2009-09-25T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T19:52:54","slug":"the-bailiwick-of-the-grammarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6951","title":{"rendered":"The Bailiwick Of The Grammarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On another web forum, in a galaxy far far away, a French person asked about a rule his English teacher told him: the possessive apostrophe (ex. Cleek's awesome blog) should only be used on <i>people<\/i>, not on <i>things<\/i> (ex. Check out the blog's awesome layout). Instead, you need to write it like: Check out the awesome layout <i>of the blog<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I'd never heard of this rule, and I question the rule's validity (er... I question the validity of the rule).<\/p>\n<p>To me, it sounds like someone who prefers French (or Spanish or Latin?) grammar rules insisting on making English sound like French: Check out ze awesome layout <i>de la blog<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Grammarians, what say you ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On another web forum, in a galaxy far far away, a French person asked about a rule his English teacher told him: the possessive apostrophe (ex. Cleek's awesome blog) should only be used on people, not on things (ex. Check out the blog's awesome layout). Instead, you need to write it like: Check out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}