{"id":6869,"date":"2011-01-15T02:33:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never\/"},"modified":"2011-01-15T02:33:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:33:50","slug":"two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2281146\/'>Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>I always type two spaces after a period. \u00a0I&rsquo;m used to it, \u00a0and I&rsquo;ve always thought that it was correct. \u00a0Well, apparently it isn&rsquo;t correct, confirmed by typographers and style guides alike. \u00a0The linked article cites several reasons and arguments, but apparently it is primarily a matter of aesthetics. \u00a0On that score I&rsquo;m not sure that I see it, but I guess I&rsquo;ll at least pay attention to my &ldquo;type crimes&rdquo; and consider switching, although it definitely won&rsquo;t feel right (as evidenced by the fact that I couldn&rsquo;t even switch while writing this post)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>[thanks to Jeanette for the link]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. I always type two spaces after a period. \u00a0I&rsquo;m used to it, \u00a0and I&rsquo;ve always thought that it was correct. \u00a0Well, apparently it isn&rsquo;t correct, confirmed by typographers and style guides alike. \u00a0The linked article cites several reasons and arguments, but apparently it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/two-spaces-after-a-period-why-you-should-never\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it.&#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-6869","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\/6869","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=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}