Oh, how I hate misplaced modifiers.\u00a0 Just now the newsreader on BBC Radio 2 told us that “MPs will debate plans to shut down two-and-a-half thousand post offices this afternoon.”\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 That’s a lot of work for one afternoon.<\/p>\n
Annoying as that might be, however, it comes nowhere near beating out my favorite example of all time.\u00a0 Many, many years ago, a local news broadcast from near my hometown reported that an unidentified body had been found in the area.\u00a0 According to the reporter, “The victim was described as only a white man.<\/i>”\u00a0 Oh, well, in that case …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oh, how I hate misplaced modifiers.\u00a0 Just now the newsreader on BBC Radio 2 told us that “MPs will debate plans to shut down two-and-a-half thousand post offices this afternoon.”\u00a0 Really?\u00a0 That’s a lot of work for one afternoon. Annoying as that might be, however, it comes nowhere near beating out my favorite example of… Read More Nit-picky<\/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-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}