{"id":1084,"date":"2005-04-29T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/04\/catching_commas_catchy_rhymes\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:25:29","slug":"catching_commas_catchy_rhymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/04\/catching_commas_catchy_rhymes.html","title":{"rendered":"CATCHING COMMAS, CATCHY RHYMES"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner made a great catch for the annals of copyediting. He notes
\nin his Hot Type<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> column:
\n

<\/P>
\n


\n

A couple of misplaced commas in an April 20 New York Times editorial
\ntransform a solemn tone into a haughty one: “There is no reason to expect any change, of course,
\nfor the church when it comes to matters like birth control, priestly celibacy or
\nhomosexuality.”<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n

<\/P>
\n

That’s a beauty.<\/P>
\n

Punctuation also counts for Leon (“He’s Our Calvin Trillin”)<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>
\nFreilich, but so does rhyme. Here’s his latest:<\/P>
\n

E-GRAPEVINE<\/B><\/P>
\n

Word of mouth
Has begun to ebb,
Superseded
By word of web.<\/P>
\n

PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT<\/B><\/P>
\n

Orgies are banned -\u2014
Too much of a crowd
For a one-night stand —
But
\nthree’s allowed.<\/I><\/P>
\nPostscript:<\/b> The Pacific holiday is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner made a great catch for the annals of copyediting. He notes in his Hot Type column: A couple of misplaced commas in an April 20 New York Times editorial transform a solemn tone into a haughty one: “There is no reason to expect any change, of course, for the church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-hu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}