{"id":16313,"date":"2009-10-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/10\/20\/how-to-write-like-raymond-start-a-sentence-with-a-question-mark\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T07:00:00","slug":"how-to-write-like-raymond-start-a-sentence-with-a-question-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091020-00\/?p=16313","title":{"rendered":"How to write like Raymond: Start a sentence with a question mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Another installment in the extremely sporadic series on how to write like Raymond. <\/p>\n<p> I use the question mark as an emoticon to indicate befuddlement or confusion. (This is not to be confused with the use of an inverted question mark in Spanish.) Here&#8217;s an imaginary example: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> <b>To<\/b>: Cakes and Cookies Discussion <\/p>\n<p> Hi, I&#8217;m trying to bake a carrot cake, but I&#8217;m having trouble finding the right staple gun. Does anybody have any recommendations? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> My reply might go something like this: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> ? What the heck are you planning to do with that staple gun? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another installment in the extremely sporadic series on how to write like Raymond. I use the question mark as an emoticon to indicate befuddlement or confusion. (This is not to be confused with the use of an inverted question mark in Spanish.) Here&#8217;s an imaginary example: To: Cakes and Cookies Discussion Hi, I&#8217;m trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,106],"class_list":["post-16313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer","tag-the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Another installment in the extremely sporadic series on how to write like Raymond. I use the question mark as an emoticon to indicate befuddlement or confusion. (This is not to be confused with the use of an inverted question mark in Spanish.) Here&#8217;s an imaginary example: To: Cakes and Cookies Discussion Hi, I&#8217;m trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}