{"id":169,"date":"2015-08-14T05:04:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T05:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2015-08-14T05:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T05:18:36","slug":"can-we-talk-about-your-grammar-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Can We Talk&#8230;About Your GRAMMAR Skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grammar can be a bug-a-boo, hated by school kids and adults nationwide. \u00a0But hating it doesn&#8217;t make it any less important to know. Good grammar reflects a refinement of a decent education and a smart person who is taken more seriously than not. \u00a0So you need your decent grammar for credibility.<\/p>\n<p>And why is it so hated? \u00a0Because the English language has so many exceptions, it&#8217;s hard to get your arms around the basics, then you&#8217;re repeatedly called out on being wrong. \u00a0And no one likes to be called out time and time again, especially on a fussy subject, and so grammar is pretty universally villified.<\/p>\n<p>But oh joy! it&#8217;s a new day \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0The internet has ushered in a new era in language and writing, so many of the old grammar rules can be cast by the wayside &#8211; yay, raise a flag!<\/p>\n<p>But not so fast &#8211; some of the old rules still hold; they can&#8217;t all be tossed. \u00a0The SmartyPants Secrets book on <a href=\"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/new-email-grammar\/\">New Online Grammar<\/a> helps to know the new rules, the old rules that can be casted aside, and how you use your good grammar to gain online attention. \u00a0And that&#8217;s what you really want with your online writing. \u00a0This I know is true.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammar can be a bug-a-boo, hated by school kids and adults nationwide. \u00a0But hating it doesn&#8217;t make it any less important to know. Good grammar reflects a refinement of a decent education and a smart person who is taken more seriously than not. \u00a0So you need your decent grammar for credibility. And why is it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/smartypantssecrets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}