{"id":18568,"date":"2017-04-07T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18568"},"modified":"2017-04-07T12:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:48:39","slug":"they-is-for-non-binary-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18568","title":{"rendered":"They is for non-binary people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP style book has created an uproar among the people who make a living by putting words on to (onto?) pieces of paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/the-aps-pronoun-decree\/article\/2007577\">Weekly Standard &#8211; &#8220;The AP&#8217;s Pronoun Decree&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The heart of the issue, if you read to the end, is the AP decided to make &#8220;they&#8221; and &#8220;their&#8221; acceptable as a singular pronoun because of the lack of a gender neutral pronoun to describe a non-binary person &#8211; a human who is neither male nor female.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bill, who is non-binary, takes their lunch to work in a brown paper bag&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We do have a pronoun already for that purpose &#8211; &#8220;it&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP style book has created an uproar among the people who make a living by putting words on to (onto?) pieces of paper. Weekly Standard &#8211; &#8220;The AP&#8217;s Pronoun Decree&#8221; The heart of the issue, if you read to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18579,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18568\/revisions\/18579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}