{"id":10,"date":"2014-01-21T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T11:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2014-01-21T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T11:02:58","slug":"proofreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Proofreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get to review a lot of scientific papers which aren&#8217;t always written in the best English. In fairness, it isn&#8217;t easy to write in a language which isn&#8217;t your own, especially some of the oddities of English grammar, and there is no way that I could write anything in another language. However, this spam email from a proof reading company made me laugh. Most (but not all) is technically correct, but reads very oddly. Any prizes for finding the mistake?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Capture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14\" alt=\"Capture\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Capture1.jpg\" width=\"606\" height=\"1086\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Capture1.jpg 606w, http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Capture1-167x300.jpg 167w, http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Capture1-571x1024.jpg 571w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get to review a lot of scientific papers which aren&#8217;t always written in the best English. In fairness, it isn&#8217;t easy to write in a language which isn&#8217;t your own, especially some of the oddities of English grammar, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/?p=10\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rickstafford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}