{"id":12878,"date":"2011-01-14T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2011-01-15T12:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:55:01","slug":"im-a-two-spacer-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/01\/14\/im-a-two-spacer-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a two-spacer, thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Whoa, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2281146\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Farhod Manjoo<\/strong><\/a> guy gets excited about two spaces after a period. I\u2019m from the typewriter age and I think I use two spaces everytime.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s a fellow who\u2019s been using computers since\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Assange#Hacking\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">at least the mid-1980s<\/a>, a guy whose globetrotting tech-wizardry has come to symbolize all that\u2019s revolutionary about the digital age. Yet when he sits down to type, Julian Assange reverts to an antiquated habit that would not have been out of place in the secretarial pools of the 1950s: He uses two spaces after every period. Which\u2014for the record\u2014is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably\u00a0<em>wrong<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa, this Farhod Manjoo guy gets excited about two spaces after a period. 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