{"id":39986,"date":"2013-12-10T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/yet-another-example-of-why-the-oxford-comma-is-useful.html"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T18:09:04","slug":"yet-another-example-of-why-the-oxford-comma-is-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/yet-another-example-of-why-the-oxford-comma-is-useful.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another example of why the Oxford Comma is useful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Though I&#39;m sure there are certain media outlets that would love to sow that particular confusion &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101412180755593510708'>Oxford Comma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23oxfordcomma\">#oxfordcomma<\/a> \u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerwhite86\/status\/410478618331320320\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerwhite86\/status\/410478618331320320\/<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-oyCmyh78wzo\/UqeVUr0I47I\/AAAAAAAAAJw\/s7B7cLzp2Ro\/BbJQIN9IEAAbhQQ.jpg_large.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/V7aKN5qHPz1' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I&#39;m sure there are certain media outlets that would love to sow that particular confusion &#8230; Reshared post from +Oxford Comma #oxfordcomma \u00a0via\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerwhite86\/status\/410478618331320320\/\ufeff View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[505],"class_list":["post-39986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language","tag-oxfordcomma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133051,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/oxford-comma-for-the-win.html","url_meta":{"origin":39986,"position":0},"title":"Oxford Comma for the win!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Mar-17 4:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Oxford Comma (a.k.a., the Serial Comma, the Harvard Comma, the Comma that Most Style Books Let You Leave Out but Pedants Like Me Keep Putting Back In) is a comma put in to break out a the last item at the end of a list to make sure it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32291,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/oxford-commas-ftw.html","url_meta":{"origin":39986,"position":1},"title":"Oxford Commas FTW","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Jan-13 9:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Needless to say, I don't find the \"Con\" arguments here very convincing. 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