{"id":1037,"date":"2011-01-04T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2011-01-04T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:47:00","slug":"this-says-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"This Says It All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">I have blogged a lot about where visitors come to my website, and I have also blogged a lot about an obsession by many about whether men wear pants inside their boots or not.&nbsp; I have also blogged on occasion about how fellow residents of the United States have lost their ability to spell or write in American English.<\/p>\n<p>The following image says it all.&nbsp; If the image is hard to read on your screen, click on it to enlarge it.&nbsp; Then read what was typed into a Google search.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TSO-59ZuuZI\/AAAAAAAACtw\/DkEI5ZuyZ_U\/s1600\/Saysit.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"62\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TSO-59ZuuZI\/AAAAAAAACtw\/DkEI5ZuyZ_U\/s400\/Saysit.jpg?resize=400%2C62\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then laugh or cry, or both.&nbsp; Oh for Pete&#8217;s sake.  I know getting &#8220;their&#8221; and &#8220;there&#8221; mixed up is common, but this is a typical example of what I see in hundreds of searches every day.  It is so sad that so many people have not learned fundamental English writing and grammar skills &#8212; and this is for those who were born in the U.S. and educated here.<\/p>\n<p>And this example does not hold a candle to the garbage that I see the kids in my own family write on their Facebook status updates.  Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:&nbsp; lurn hw 2 writ <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have blogged a lot about where visitors come to my website, and I have also blogged a lot about an obsession by many about whether men wear pants inside their boots or not.&nbsp; I have also blogged on occasion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1037\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}