{"id":5869,"date":"2011-08-20T13:59:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/muphrys-law\/"},"modified":"2011-08-20T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T13:59:05","slug":"muphrys-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/muphrys-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Muphry\u2019s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.editorscanberra.org\/muphrys-law\/'>Muphry\u2019s Law<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Muphry\u2019s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy\u2019s Law. Muphry\u2019s Law dictates that:<\/p>\n<p>a) if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written;<\/p>\n<p>b) if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book;<\/p>\n<p>c) the stronger the sentiment in (a) and (b), the greater the fault; and<\/p>\n<p>d) any book devoted to editing or style will be internally inconsistent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muphry\u2019s Law Muphry\u2019s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy\u2019s Law. Muphry\u2019s Law dictates that: a) if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written; b) if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/muphrys-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Muphry\u2019s Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}