{"id":50094,"date":"2015-04-16T07:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T13:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/comma-commentary.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T17:50:26","slug":"comma-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/comma-commentary.html","title":{"rendered":"Comma commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commas can sometimes be hard. This article touches on a particular set of use cases I see mangled all the time at work.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110973047797498816580\" oid=\"110973047797498816580\">Karen Conlin<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/sesquiotic.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/14\/an-article-title-an-article-title-an-article-title-needs-commas-needs-commas-needs-commas'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3OXZQSgIGLC0cydFs744nmVFPJD7u_mNAvJ9AFQyu3EgGDrF7MTfozsPrndFPjL6qqKEZAnahTgj911HYVYNWgU7BopGjedckdfdqbP29Wv31OGUe42zMSQ8Gg=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/sesquiotic.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/14\/an-article-title-an-article-title-an-article-title-needs-commas-needs-commas-needs-commas'>An article title, &#8220;An article title &#8216;An article title needs commas&#8217; needs commas,&#8221; needs commas<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nA little while back, a fellow editor asked me about commas and appositives, particularly with an eye to mentioning titles of books and such like. Consider the following: A 2011 report, &#8220;Fun Things &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/LMT7dbbqyNT'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commas can sometimes be hard. This article touches on a particular set of use cases I see mangled all the time at work. (h\/t +Karen Conlin) An article title, &#8220;An article title &#8216;An article title needs commas&#8217; needs commas,&#8221; needs commas A little while back, a fellow editor asked me about commas and appositives, particularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/comma-commentary.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comma commentary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51656,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/01\/commas-count.html","url_meta":{"origin":50094,"position":0},"title":"Commas Count","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Jul-15 9:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Boo, yah! 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