{"id":153,"date":"2006-04-12T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/04\/12\/emoticons\/"},"modified":"2006-04-12T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T06:05:00","slug":"emoticons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/04\/emoticons\/","title":{"rendered":"Emoticons"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As for our writing personally to each other, how often do you hear people complain that emails subtract the tone of voice; that it&#8217;s hard to tell if someone is joking or not? Clicking on &#8220;send&#8221; has its limitations as a system of subtle communication. Which is why, of course, people use so many dashes and italics and capitals (&#8220;I AM joking!&#8221;) to compensate. That&#8217;s why they came up with the emoticon, too&#8211;the emoticon being the greatest (or most desperate, depending how you look at it) advance in punctuation since the question mark in the reign of Charlemagne.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Lynne Truss, <i>Eats, Shoots &#038; Leaves,<\/i> 192 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for our writing personally to each other, how often do you hear people complain that emails subtract the tone of voice; that it&#8217;s hard to tell if someone is joking or not? Clicking on &#8220;send&#8221; has its limitations as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2006\/04\/emoticons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}