{"id":906,"date":"2018-02-19T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=906"},"modified":"2018-03-01T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:48:45","slug":"are-the-reasons-people-give-for-not-using-the-oxford-comma-compelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/19\/are-the-reasons-people-give-for-not-using-the-oxford-comma-compelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the reasons people give for not using the Oxford comma compelling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-887\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-887\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-6-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-6-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021918-6.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are the reasons people give for not using the Oxford comma compelling?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reasons they give are nonsensical, irrational, and silly. But seriously, this topic is quite divisive. Do follow the style guide your professor or journal requires. For an amusing discussion of the pros and cons, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ProConComma\">bit.ly\/ProConComma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons they give are nonsensical, irrational, and silly. But seriously, this topic is quite divisive. Do follow the style guide your professor or journal requires. For an amusing discussion of the pros and cons, see: bit.ly\/ProConComma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[123,122,124],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-commas","tag-grammar","tag-oxford_comma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}