{"id":12791,"date":"2010-02-12T09:57:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/02\/12\/inadvertent-smiley.html"},"modified":"2010-02-12T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T17:57:01","slug":"inadvertent-smiley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/02\/12\/inadvertent-smiley\/","title":{"rendered":"Inadvertent smiley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just saw this in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/2010\/02\/11\/proposition-8-how-many-souls-have-you-saved\/\">blog entry<\/a> at alternet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the lawyers handling the case for the defendants (that is, defending the constitutionality of Prop. <img src='http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' \/> sent us a note recently[....]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Presumably, the blog software is set to automatically turn \"8)\" into a smiley icon. Cute idea, but perhaps a little overzealous.<\/p>\n<p>I've seen this sort of thing happen elsewhere, in software that turns \":)\" into a smiley icon. But a colon is much less likely than an 8 to appear just before a close-paren in ordinary English text.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw this in a blog entry at alternet: One of the lawyers handling the case for the defendants (that is, defending the constitutionality of Prop. sent us a note&#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":[36,38,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emoticons","category-errors","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}