{"id":1595,"date":"2007-08-23T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2007-08-23T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T17:53:00","slug":"a-grammar-lesson-for-fergie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/music\/a-grammar-lesson-for-fergie\/","title":{"rendered":"A grammar lesson for Fergie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Grown Up Incarnation of Stacy Ferguson, member of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kids_Incorporated\" target=\"_blank\">KIDS Incorporated<\/a><\/i> (one of my very favorite childhood shows):<\/p>\n<p>The least you can do, if you are going to put out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolyrics.com\/big-girls-dont-cry-lyrics-fergie.html\" target=\"_blank\">a song<\/a> that will \u2014 through no fault of my own \u2014 enter into my ears no less than three times a day, is make sure that you get your freaking pronoun\/antecedent agreement right.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I hear &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket,&#8221; I think about choking children with ratty scraps of fabric. Why do you do this to me, Fergs? WHY?<\/p>\n<p>The song is about you, presumably. Don&#8217;t be shy to use &#8220;her.&#8221; It would do wonders to clear up all those <a href=\"http:\/\/badhairday.typepad.com\/bad_hair_day\/2006\/09\/fergie_fuzz.html\" target=\"_blank\">rumors about your, uh, genital makeup<\/a>*.<\/p>\n<p>*<font size=\"1\">That&#8217;s right! I linked to a highly offensive, sexist, looksist celebrity gossip blog. And what of it? <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Grown Up Incarnation of Stacy Ferguson, member of KIDS Incorporated (one of my very favorite childhood shows): The least you can do, if you are going to put out a song that will \u2014 through no fault of my own \u2014 enter into my ears no less than three times a day, is make sure that you get your freaking pronoun\/antecedent agreement right. Every time I hear &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna miss you like a child&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-pJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}