{"id":41143,"date":"2004-01-08T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/01\/08\/its-called-proofreading-give-it-a-shot-why-dont-you\/"},"modified":"2004-01-08T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T08:24:00","slug":"its-called-proofreading-give-it-a-shot-why-dont-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040108-00\/?p=41143\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s called &quot;proofreading&quot;, give it a shot why don&#039;t you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like everybody else, I was checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/\">the new MSN home page<\/a> and I clicked over to <a href=\"http:\/\/new.msn.com\/homepage\/\">the tour<\/a>. And right there as their top headline in the sample web page, it says, &#8220;Wierd items of the future&#8221;.\nAhem. It&#8217;s spelled w-e-i-r-d.\nAnd on all of the MSN properties, like <a href=\"http:\/\/local.msn.com\/\">local city guides<\/a>, you can see MSN&#8217;s new motto: &#8220;More Useful Everyday&#8221;.\nUm, another spelling error. That should read &#8220;More Useful Every Day&#8221;. When used as a single word, &#8220;everyday&#8221; is an adjective, not an adverb. Like &#8220;An everyday event&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stick with <a href=\"http:\/\/my.yahoo.com\/\">My Yahoo<\/a>, thanks the same. At least they know how to spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like everybody else, I was checking out the new MSN home page and I clicked over to the tour. And right there as their top headline in the sample web page, it says, &#8220;Wierd items of the future&#8221;. Ahem. It&#8217;s spelled w-e-i-r-d. And on all of the MSN properties, like local city guides, you can [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-41143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Like everybody else, I was checking out the new MSN home page and I clicked over to the tour. And right there as their top headline in the sample web page, it says, &#8220;Wierd items of the future&#8221;. Ahem. It&#8217;s spelled w-e-i-r-d. And on all of the MSN properties, like local city guides, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143","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=41143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41143\/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=41143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}