{"id":2769,"date":"2016-03-06T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/To-me-the-second-page-of-this-post-is-more-important-than-the-first-because-a-lot-of-people-get-it-wrong"},"modified":"2016-03-06T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:41:10","slug":"to-me-the-second-page-of-this-post-is-more-important-than-the-first-because-a-lot-of-people-get-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/03\/06\/to-me-the-second-page-of-this-post-is-more-important-than-the-first-because-a-lot-of-people-get-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"To me, the second page of this post is more important than the first, because a lot of people get it wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>To me, the second page of this post is more important than the first, because a lot of people get it wrong. <em>Might<\/em> is the past tense of <em>may<\/em>. If you&#8217;re narrating in past tense, the correct phrasing is &#8220;he might have got it wrong&#8221;, not &#8220;he may have got it wrong&#8221;. The second version shifts the narration into the present tense with a wrench. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Grammar Girl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/1nzHq1y<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        To me, the second page of this post is more important than the first, because a lot of people get it wrong.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/03\/06\/to-me-the-second-page-of-this-post-is-more-important-than-the-first-because-a-lot-of-people-get-it-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"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=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}