{"id":1388,"date":"2006-08-08T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/08\/the-two-million-dollar-comma\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T22:03:00","slug":"the-two-million-dollar-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/08\/the-two-million-dollar-comma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Million Dollar Comma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>$2.13 million, actually.  See if you can spot the offending punctuation below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Page 7 of the contract states: The agreement \u201cshall continue in force for a period of five years from the date it is made, and thereafter for successive five year terms, unless and until terminated by one year prior notice in writing by either party.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think you&#8217;ve got it?  Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060806.wr-rogers07\/BNStory\/Business\/home\">the <i>Globe and Mail<\/i> story<\/a> and see if you&#8217;re right!<\/p>\n<p>I will also take this opportunity to shill for Lynne Truss&#8217; book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1592402038\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Eats, Shoots &#038; Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$2.13 million, actually. See if you can spot the offending punctuation below: Page 7 of the contract states: The agreement \u201cshall continue in force for a period of five years from the date it is made, and thereafter for successive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}