{"id":2,"date":"2008-02-07T18:35:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T00:35:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-08T15:26:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:26:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I\u2019m finally getting so sick and tired\u00a0of the poor use of the english language here in Australia, that I\u2019ve opened this blog as a means of venting my frustration. Even the title has been deliberately mangled to highlight the growing lack of respect and adherence that I see and hear around me every day.<\/p>\n<p>Now I freely admit that I\u2019m far from perfect, and I know I have my own failings with the language. But I\u2019m becoming increasingly annoyed at things like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the bastardisation \/ americanisation of english &#8211; if you want to write\/speak like an American, then go to America!<br \/>\n&#8211; poor grammer, even from quarters that are supposed to know better<br \/>\n&#8211; a growing disregard for correct spelling (and a growing americanisation of spelling, which is sometimes even worse!)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll only update the blog occassionally as I see fit, or when something particularly annoys me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I\u2019m finally getting so sick and tired\u00a0of the poor use of the english language here in Australia, that I\u2019ve opened this blog as a means of venting my frustration. Even the title has been deliberately mangled to highlight the growing lack of respect and adherence that I see and hear around me every day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.october.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}