{"id":5272,"date":"2009-08-18T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2009-08-18T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:22:43","slug":"grammar-vandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/grammar-vandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Vandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1207301\/Punctuation-hero-branded-vandal-inserting-apostrophes-street-signs.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Don Quixote<\/a> for the age of Twitter:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2009\/08\/18\/article-1207301-06185316000005DC-318_468x314.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"234\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With his trusty paintbrush, Stefan Gatward has been flying the flag for the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a collar, tie and well-polished shoes, the former soldier has been fixing missed apostrophes on grammatically incorrect street signs in Tunbridge Wells.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction on the street was mixed &#8211; one neighbour offered him praise, but another, also a soldier, took offence.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gatward said: &#8216;He asked me what I was doing and told me I was wrong. He called me a vandal and a graffiti artist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He tried to tell me that the post office would not deliver to the street if you put an apostrophe on the address.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Don Quixote for the age of Twitter: With his trusty paintbrush, Stefan Gatward has been flying the flag for the English language. Dressed in a collar, tie and well-polished shoes, the former soldier has been fixing missed apostrophes on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/grammar-vandal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[2129],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}