{"id":2302,"date":"2011-12-14T21:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2011-12-14T21:22:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T05:22:41","slug":"better-than-a-spell-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/better-than-a-spell-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Than a Spell Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or should that be <i>spellchecker<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, <a href=\"\/mvp\/mark-roth-proofreader\/\" title=\"Hire Mark Roth to proofread your stuff!\">a good proofreader<\/a> is better than a spell-checker.<\/p>\n<p>But even a plain old spell checker would have caught the four errors I saw a bit ago. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I scanned two fresh articles of interest to me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.websitemagazine.com\/\" title=\"WebSiteMagazine\">Website Magazine<\/a>. (Hint: I saw them in my RSS feed.)<\/p>\n<p>Short articles, they are. Yet they each have two glaring mistakes. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>Is anybody over there proofreading carefully?<\/p>\n<p>Or at least running a spell checker?<\/p>\n<p>Just askin&#8217;. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d link to the articles, but why bother?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d post screen captures, but why bother capturing?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pointed out errors to them in the past, but why bother now?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or should that be spellchecker? Whatever the case, a good proofreader is better than a spell-checker. But even a plain old spell checker would have caught the four errors I saw a bit ago.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[981,472],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat","tag-grammar","tag-mark-roth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-B8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}