{"id":545,"date":"2004-02-10T06:58:30","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=545"},"modified":"2004-02-10T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T06:58:30","slug":"why-they-call-them-testy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/why-they-call-them-testy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why they call them Testy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody over at Testy Copy Editors asked what people thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testycopyeditors.org\/cgi-bin\/forum\/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&#038;f=4&#038;t=000418\">capitalizing &#8220;spring break.&#8221;<\/a> My favorite response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Bu-Gal is being asked to treat spring break as if it&#8217;s fuckin&#8217; Ramadan. I empower her to hurl a dictionary in protest. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blanp also got in a choice zinger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testycopyeditors.org\/cgi-bin\/forum\/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&#038;f=4&#038;t=000424\">on another topic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> Jayson Blair has &#8220;decided to set aside a portion of his advance for charitable causes, including possible scholarships at his alma mater, the University of Maryland.&#8221;<\/i> ( Editor &#038; Publisher)<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n***Imagine the competition among journalism students for the Jayson Blair Scholarship.*** <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody over at Testy Copy Editors asked what people thought of capitalizing &#8220;spring break.&#8221; My favorite response: Bu-Gal is being asked to treat spring break as if it&#8217;s fuckin&#8217; Ramadan. I empower her to hurl a dictionary in protest. Blanp&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/why-they-call-them-testy\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}