{"id":65254,"date":"2017-12-01T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65254"},"modified":"2017-11-30T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T02:20:09","slug":"staggering-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65254","title":{"rendered":"Staggering Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dante&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Divine Comedy\u00a0<\/em>was one of the great works of Western literature &#8211; a key building block in the intellectual tradition of the West.<\/p>\n<p>This update, re-imagining Dante&#8217;s nine circles of Hell as applied to linguistic offenses, may actually be better.<\/p>\n<p>Circle two &#8211; regarding the eternal, infernal debate over the &#8220;Oxford Comma&#8221;, is a good example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Second Circle:<br \/>\nThe Serial Comma<\/h4>\n<p>One half of this circle is populated by souls who are cursed to make arguments that nobody cares about except their own mothers, howling gorgons and the infernal mistresses of hell. The other half are cursed to make arguments that nobody cares about except their own mothers, howling gorgons, and the infernal mistresses of hell. The difference between these two situations seems to matter a lot to both halves. Neither side will listen to you when you suggest that they could avoid this level entirely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Circle ten; those who circulate memes on social media about how putting two spaces after a period is &#8220;wrong&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dante&#8217;s\u00a0Divine Comedy\u00a0was one of the great works of Western literature &#8211; a key building block in the intellectual tradition of the West. This update, re-imagining Dante&#8217;s nine circles of Hell as applied to linguistic offenses, may actually be better. Circle two &#8211; regarding the eternal, infernal debate over the &#8220;Oxford Comma&#8221;, is a good example: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65255,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65254\/revisions\/65255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}