{"id":4991,"date":"2013-01-08T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2013-01-08T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:21:08","slug":"copy-editors-killed-in-chicago-manual-ap-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4991","title":{"rendered":"Copy Editors Killed in Chicago Manual-AP Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

“At this time we have reason to believe the killings were gang-related and carried out by adherents of both the AP and Chicago styles, part of a vicious, bloody feud to establish control over the grammar and usage guidelines governing American English,\u201d said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein, showing reporters graffiti tags in which the word \u201canti-social\u201d had been corrected to read \u201cantisocial.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Chicago rulez. We got two documentation styles, an’ we know de difference tween a hyphen and an en-dash.<\/a> Dey ain’t got shit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“At this time we have reason to believe the killings were gang-related and carried out by adherents of both the AP and Chicago styles, part of a vicious, bloody feud to establish control over the grammar and usage guidelines governing American English,\u201d said FBI spokesman Paul Holstein, showing reporters graffiti tags in which the word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1iv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6506,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6506","url_meta":{"origin":4991,"position":0},"title":"What Does the New AP Stylebook Say?","author":"Chas S. 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