{"id":915,"date":"2007-02-24T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2007-02-24T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T12:47:57","slug":"who_knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/who_knew\/","title":{"rendered":"who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following exchange occurred this morning during a long IM session with a close friend and colleague:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dripping sarcasm.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/dripping%20sarcasm.jpg\" width=\"352\" height=\"160\" \/><br \/>\nTurns out there is an actual punctuation mark in French to indicate irony which you can read about in this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irony_mark\">wikipedia article.<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"irony marks.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/irony%20marks.jpg\" width=\"323\" height=\"147\" \/><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t actually use emoticons because i find them so aesthetically uninteresting, so i love the idea of a new class of punctuation marks evolving to take the place of the smiley face in all its saccharine implementations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following exchange occurred this morning during a long IM session with a close friend and colleague: Turns out there is an actual punctuation mark in French to indicate irony which you can read about in this wikipedia article. I don&#8217;t actually use emoticons because i find them so aesthetically uninteresting, so i love the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,586,859,2042],"tags":[2398],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chat","category-emoticon","category-im","category-writing","tag-emoticon-im-writing-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}