{"id":2402,"date":"2004-04-08T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T08:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/09\/eats-shoots-and-leaves\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:51:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:51:48","slug":"eats-shoots-and-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/08\/eats-shoots-and-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Eats shoots and leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11319,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/08\\\/books\\\/08MASL.html?ex=1396756800&amp;en=4eab9208dcc1e8d3&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11320,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/users\\\/sirriamnis\\\/477353.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041224221406\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com:80\\\/users\\\/sirriamnis\\\/477353.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 15:13:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 15:13:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Another book I need to add to my collection: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/08\/books\/08MASL.html?ex=1396756800&amp;en=4eab9208dcc1e8d3&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\" title=\"Hark, Abused Punctuation: This Writer Feels Your Pain\">Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves&#8221; takes its title from a mispunctuated phrase about a panda. In Britain, where this rib-tickling little book has been a huge success and its panda joke apparently recited in the House of Lords, Ms.\u00a0Truss has proved to be anything but a lone voice. Despite her assertion that &#8220;being burned as a witch is not safely enough off the agenda&#8221; for the punctuation-minded stickler, Ms.\u00a0Truss obviously hit a raw nerve. For those who are tired of seeing signs like &#8220;Bobs&#8217; Motors&#8221; and think an &#8220;Eight Items or Less&#8221; checkout sign should read &#8220;Eight Items or Fewer,&#8221; boy, is this book for you.<\/p>\n<p>  Ms.\u00a0Truss has not succeeded solely on the basis of her punctuation acumen (though that is considerable &#8212; and by the way, she finds dashes and parentheses annoying). Her mission to &#8220;engage in some direct-action argy-bargy&#8221; has helped the book, too.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dashes and parentheses annoy her? Ah, such a shame &#8212; given that I&#8217;m quite prone to using dashes (as I did earlier in this sentence) and parentheses (like this, for the second time in a single sentence &#8212; and another dash, too, just for good measure), I suppose she won&#8217;t be much of a fan of my writing style. ;)<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sirriamnis\/477353.html\" title=\"Must have this book\">Mickey<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Mile End&#8221; by Pulp from the album <em>Trainspotting<\/em> (1995, 4:31).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another book I need to add to my collection: Eats, Shoots &amp; Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","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=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}