{"id":2680,"date":"2007-11-13T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T06:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/11\/13\/adams-apple-3\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T23:47:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T06:47:22","slug":"adams-apple-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/11\/13\/adams-apple-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams’ Apple 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigh.\u00c2\u00a0 Wearily, I point out that a blog entry I wrote in September of 2006<\/a> has gotten the attention of someone.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I added a few comments for Nathan’s commentary a few weeks’ ago in another blog entry, which makes it a little odd that Bob Walters responded to the old post.<\/p>\n

I could have sworn, and I would if I were a little more vain, that the Halloween strip was a response to my comments, my reply being a bit of confusion with the question “What Elementary school in the Portland area is not celebrating Halloween?”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (I passed a couple on Halloween, and saw kids in costume.)\u00c2\u00a0 But I suppose the theme of the practices of the culture at large versus those of various sub-cultures will be explored and answered by the teacher \/ cartoonist as he sees fit, and if I see him annoyed by an interchanging of “Holidays” for “Christmas”, I will just have to groan.\u00c2\u00a0 We will shortly see another episode of “Parent calls the Principal because the Child relayed a cute misinterpretation of what the Teacher said” sooner or later — and hopefully the next time it will make sense.<\/p>\n

Overall the most interesting aspect of this comic strip is the apostrophe in the title. \u00c2\u00a0 In my education I learned two manners of handling the apostrophe at the end of a singular name that ends in “s”, one being how this title works — the other being that you have the customary ” ‘s “, as you would have with any other name, for instance: Bob’s.\u00c2\u00a0 I know my Junior year high school English teacher was a stickler for the latter.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect that she is correct, and the former is the rule that has come about due to popular usage, an evolution I am not necessarily opposed to, but one that has come along because of the awkwardness of seeing ” s’s”.\u00c2\u00a0 In the end, the most valuable lesson of how to handle those English rules was taught by my sixth grade teacher: what you do is learn what your teacher wants, and then consistently apply those rules for the rest of the year.\u00c2\u00a0 Practical man with practical advice, he.<\/p>\n

Now let’s never talk about this comic strip again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sigh.\u00c2\u00a0 Wearily, I point out that a blog entry I wrote in September of 2006 has gotten the attention of someone.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I added a few comments for Nathan’s commentary a few weeks’ ago in another blog entry, which makes it a little odd that Bob Walters responded to the old post. I could have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}