{"id":12,"date":"2005-01-11T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/archives\/2005\/01\/11\/harry-s-truman-vs-harry-s-truman\/"},"modified":"2005-01-11T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T18:55:58","slug":"harry-s-truman-vs-harry-s-truman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/archives\/2005\/01\/11\/harry-s-truman-vs-harry-s-truman\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry S Truman vs Harry S. Truman"},"content":{"rendered":"

To dot or not to dot that is the question.<\/p>\n

A reader pointed out to me that I had used a full stop in Truman’s name in attributing a quote to him and that it wasn’t an abbreviation but the letter itself and thus did not need the dot.<\/p>\n

Using the fabulous google I did a little research and found this reference on snopes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes it is just the letter S but Truman did use a full stop. From this I’m assuming either is fine and I’ll leave my attribution as it is.<\/p>\n

Current temperature 12F\/-11C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To dot or not to dot that is the question. A reader pointed out to me that I had used a full stop in Truman’s name in attributing a quote to him and that it wasn’t an abbreviation but the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZUC-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}