{"id":1142,"date":"2003-04-23T05:57:48","date_gmt":"2003-04-23T19:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/23\/its-its-its\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:40:12","slug":"its-its-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/23\/its-its-its\/","title":{"rendered":"Its \/ It&#039;s \/ Its&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Prairie (11:49:51 AM): but my class went fine in spite of that&#8230;although somehow I managed to talk for half an hour about apostrophes, and I&#8217;m not quite sure how it happened<br \/>\n  Michael (11:49:58 AM): oh wow!<br \/>\n  Michael (11:50:00 AM): :laughs<br \/>\n  Michael (11:50:04 AM): half an hour? wow&#8230;<br \/>\n  Prairie (11:50:21 AM): I know&#8230;but they kept asking questions, so I kept talking<br \/>\n  Michael (11:50:38 AM): well, there are people who can&#8217;t figure out &#8220;its&#8221; and &#8220;it&#8217;s&#8221; after <em>years<\/em> of teaching, so I can see half an hour on apostrophes in general<br \/>\n  Prairie (11:51:01 AM): yeah &#8212; we spent at least 10 minutes on it&#8217;s and its, and let&#8217;s and lets<br \/>\n  Michael (11:51:30 AM): I think someday I want to start a software company called Its<br \/>\n  Michael (11:51:48 AM): so that when we release software, in order to write about it correctly, people would have to say<br \/>\n  Michael (11:51:51 AM): Its&#8217; new software<br \/>\n  Michael (11:51:52 AM): lol<br \/>\n  Prairie (11:52:02 AM): just so you can write sentences<br \/>\n  like &#8212; yeah &#8212; exactly!<br \/>\n  Michael (11:52:06 AM): :laughs<br \/>\n  Michael (11:52:13 AM): piss <em>every<\/em> editor in the world off<br \/>\n  Prairie (11:52:33 AM): just to add one more level of confusion (LOVE the way you think!)<br \/>\n  Michael (11:52:49 AM): woohoo!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think someday I want to start a software company called Its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}