{"id":5777,"date":"2013-05-20T23:13:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T06:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2013-05-20T23:13:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T06:13:05","slug":"when-someone-starts-a-sentence-with-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/when-someone-starts-a-sentence-with-the\/","title":{"rendered":"When someone starts a sentence with the&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>When someone starts a sentence with the first half containing &#8220;I&#8221; , &#8220;not&#8221;, and &#8220;but&#8221;, the &#8220;not&#8221; should be removed and the &#8220;but&#8221; replaced with &#8220;therefore&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not prejudiced, but&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not honor you with a reply, but&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not usually [&#8230;], but&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The most infuriating is a letter that starts with:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not always agree with what you say, but&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151491828923375&amp;id=13012333374\">When someone starts a sentence with the&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone starts a sentence with the first half containing &#8220;I&#8221; , &#8220;not&#8221;, and &#8220;but&#8221;, the &#8220;not&#8221; should be removed and the &#8220;but&#8221; replaced with &#8220;therefore&#8221;. Examples: &#8220;I am not prejudiced, but&#8221; &#8220;I will not honor you with a reply, but&#8221; &#8220;I do not usually [&#8230;], but&#8221; &#8212; The most infuriating is a letter that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}