{"id":392,"date":"2011-12-30T17:37:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T22:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=392"},"modified":"2011-12-30T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T22:37:52","slug":"spelling-out-the-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2011\/12\/30\/spelling-out-the-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling Out the Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man on a television documentary said the following line.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It then became a hands-off operation as opposed to a hands-on operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why bother spelling the alternative out? Would anybody really have thought of something else such the following?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It then became a hands-off operation as opposed to a turkey sandwich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the alternative is obvious (like pretty much every binary scenario), then there is no need to spell it out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/grammar\/\" rel=\"tag\">Grammar<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man on a television documentary said the following line. It then became a hands-off operation as opposed to a hands-on operation. Why bother spelling the alternative out? Would anybody really have thought of something else such the following? It then became a hands-off operation as opposed to a turkey sandwich. If the alternative is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}