{"id":1513,"date":"2014-12-01T21:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2016-07-02T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T21:48:18","slug":"the-year-of-the-em-dash-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/the-year-of-the-em-dash-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year of the Em Dash, Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;2014 is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fileformat.info\/info\/unicode\/char\/2014\/index.htm\">Unicodepoint for the <em>em dash<\/em><\/a>! Isn't that the greatest thing <em>ever<\/em>? How did I not <em>know<\/em> this before <em>December<\/em> of this glorious year?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That's two zero one four in <em>hex<\/em>, dummy. It's not the same number.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But, but\u2014that means the year of the em dash isn't until\u2014four, plus sixteen, plus two-to-the-thirteenth ... the year <em>eighty-two twelve<\/em>! I'll probably be <em>dead<\/em> by then!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Well, you can still celebrate the year of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N%27Ko_alphabet\">N'ko<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fileformat.info\/info\/unicode\/char\/7de\/index.htm\">letter Ka<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That is <em>small consolation<\/em>, my friend!&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;2014 is the Unicodepoint for the em dash! Isn't that the greatest thing ever? How did I not know this before December of this glorious year?&quot; &quot;That's two zero one four in hex, dummy. It's not the same number.&quot; &quot;But, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/the-year-of-the-em-dash-not\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}