{"id":853,"date":"2010-07-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:32:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:32:50","slug":"spellin-dusnt-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Spellin Dusn&#8217;t Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Apparently to Google, spelling doesn&#8217;t count.  I have seen visitors come to my blog by looking up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how to were cowboy boots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>where boots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>y were motorsikle boots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>u were boots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>2 go 2 lthr prid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and many more such gaffs.  More than gaffs:  to me, signs of a poor education.  And mind you, these visitors were from the United States.  I forgive people from other countries whose first language is not English.  But for those from the U.S., I anticipate that common words should be spelled correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Am I anticipating too much?  Probably so.  These days with texting short-hand, most kids never spell out words.  They use short forms of words to get across their message.  That&#8217;s fine for texting, but for writing messages for email, or for papers for school or work, I come from the &#8220;old school&#8221; where spelling counts.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing I can do about it, other than to post occasional rants from time to time.  This is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  learn to spell.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently to Google, spelling doesn&#8217;t count. I have seen visitors come to my blog by looking up: how to were cowboy boots where boots y were motorsikle boots u were boots 2 go 2 lthr prid &#8230; and many more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=853\">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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}