{"id":29,"date":"2006-11-28T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-11-28T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T21:06:12","slug":"dashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Dashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, writing is hard.<\/p>\n

Self: en dash is the short dash. It’s used for closed range things and for linking things together.<\/p>\n

An em dash is the long dash. Quoting from the wiki<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The em dash indicates a sudden break in thought\u00e2\u20ac\u201da parenthetical statement like this one\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor an open range (such as “John Doe, 1987\u00e2\u20ac\u201d”). The em dash is used in much the way a colon<\/a> or set of parentheses<\/a> is used: it can show an abrupt change in thought or be used where a period<\/a> is too strong and a comma<\/a> too weak. Em dashes are sometimes used in lists or definitions, but this is not considered correct usage[citation\u00c2\u00a0needed<\/em><\/a>]<\/sup>: a colon<\/a> should be used instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, writing is hard. Self: en dash is the short dash. It’s used for closed range things and for linking things together. An em dash is the long dash. Quoting from the wiki: The em dash indicates a sudden break in thought\u00e2\u20ac\u201da parenthetical statement like this one\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor an open range (such as “John Doe, 1987\u00e2\u20ac\u201d”). … Continue reading Dashes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8rNFZ-dashes","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}