{"id":2512,"date":"2017-02-21T16:24:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Dangling-modifiers-always-lose-writers-points-with-me-when-Im-reviewing-because-they-imply-that-the-writers-are"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:24:54","slug":"dangling-modifiers-always-lose-writers-points-with-me-when-im-reviewing-because-they-imply-that-the-writers-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/02\/21\/dangling-modifiers-always-lose-writers-points-with-me-when-im-reviewing-because-they-imply-that-the-writers-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangling modifiers always lose writers points with me when I&#8217;m reviewing, because they imply that the writers are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dangling modifiers always lose writers points with me when I&#8217;m reviewing, because they imply that the writers are not thinking through their sentences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hit one the other day along these lines: &#8220;As the only young lady on board, the captain had been very solicitous of her comfort.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Laura Gibbs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they are funny, they really ARE funny:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oozing slowly across the dish, Kevin watched the egg yolk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[don&#8217;t you want yolk to be a verb? ha ha]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gasping for his last breath, the professor killed the cockroach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grooming each other, my professor and I saw the kittens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/blogs\/linguafranca\/2017\/02\/20\/how-dangerous-are-danglers\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Dangling modifiers always lose writers points with me when I&#8217;m reviewing, because they imply that the writers are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}