{"id":67398,"date":"2015-09-20T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=67398"},"modified":"2015-09-20T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T17:33:22","slug":"why-one-might-want-to-use-the-oxford-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/09\/20\/why-one-might-want-to-use-the-oxford-comma\/","title":{"rendered":"Why one might want to Use the “Oxford Comma”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “Oxford comma” is the one placed before an “and” in a list of three or more. It’s\u00a0the subject of an embittered battle among grammar-lovers. You can make up your own mind. Sometimes it’s correct to use it; sometimes it’s more fun not to.<\/p>\n

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Posted at Mental Floss<\/a>, made\u00a0by Arika Okrent<\/a>, who wrote a book about invented languages<\/a>,\u00a0and artist\u00a0Mike Rogalski<\/a>. Used with permission.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Oxford comma” is the one placed before an “and” in a list of three or more. It’s\u00a0the subject of an embittered battle among grammar-lovers. You can make up your own mind. Sometimes it’s correct to use it; sometimes it’s more fun not to. Posted at Mental Floss, made\u00a0by Arika Okrent, who wrote a book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":67400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,23384],"class_list":["post-67398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/07\/6.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67970,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67398\/revisions\/67970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}