{"id":380,"date":"2016-11-16T15:04:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2016-11-16T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:04:05","slug":"punctuation-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/punctuation-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Punctuation puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A relatively obscure puzzle category is that of punctuation puzzles. An example is to add capitalization and punctuation to the following list of words to make them grammatically correct \u2013 and explain what the result means.<\/p>\n<p>     time flies you can\u2019t they move to fast.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is:<\/p>\n<p>     \u201cTime flies!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>     \u201cYou can\u2019t. They move too fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someone asked a friend to time how fast houseflies move. The friend replied that they darted about too quickly for him to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Corny? Sure. But here\u2019s one that is a little more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>     becky while tom had had had had had had had had had had had the teachers approval<\/p>\n<p>I will share the solution in my next post.<\/p>\n<p>&copy; 2016 Lyndon Hardy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relatively obscure puzzle category is that of punctuation puzzles. An example is to add capitalization and punctuation to the following list of words to make them grammatically correct \u2013 and explain what the result means. time flies you can\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/punctuation-puzzles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}