{"id":3098,"date":"2013-03-13T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2013-03-13T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T16:39:14","slug":"periods-do-not-go-in-phone-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/periods-do-not-go-in-phone-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Periods. Do. Not. Go. In. Phone. Numbers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Iowa Legislature: Please stop doing that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3099\" alt=\"phperiod\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phperiod.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phperiod.jpg 343w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/phperiod-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The proper style is with dashes, and preferably parentheses for area codes, no matter how many advertisements appear otherwise. Periods aren&#8217;t supposed to be used for dates, either,\u00a0<em>USA Today<\/em>\u00a0redesign notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>It is not an IP address. It is not a decimal number. It is a series of digits for a specific purpose with a format that was agreed upon decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>(End copy editor\/design rant.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Iowa Legislature: Please stop doing that. The proper style is with dashes, and preferably parentheses for area codes, no matter how many advertisements appear otherwise. Periods aren&#8217;t supposed to be used for dates, either,\u00a0USA Today\u00a0redesign notwithstanding. It is not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/periods-do-not-go-in-phone-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}