{"id":2612,"date":"2005-01-31T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/01\/31\/2612.html"},"modified":"2005-01-31T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T06:04:33","slug":"i-want-2-proffred-ur-storey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/01\/31\/i-want-2-proffred-ur-storey\/","title":{"rendered":"I want 2 proffred ur storey!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the fanfic community, the verb <span class=\"word-as-word\">to beta<\/span> means to edit (and\/or critique) someone else's story.  Ceciliaregent points to some entertainingly bad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/gmth\/157009.html\">offers to beta<\/a> from people who really aren't doing a very good job of demonstrating their skill with grammar (or rather \"grammer\"), spelling, and punctuation.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, nobody writes perfectly all the time; and there's always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower3\/hhhyphen.comments.html\">Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation<\/a> to contend with.  And yeah, even some English professors aren't very good at spelling.  But if you're going to offer to proofread someone else's story, it's probably a good idea to spellcheck your offer.  Or else to, you know, be good at spelling.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fanfic community, the verb to beta means to edit (and\/or critique) someone else&#8217;s story. Ceciliaregent points to some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}