{"id":1939,"date":"2024-03-07T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2024-03-07T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:30:48","slug":"how-amazing-is-the-interrobang%e2%80%bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1939","title":{"rendered":"How Amazing is the Interrobang\u203d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just wanted to take a moment to show my newfound appreciation of the interrobang &#8211; an often-overlooked punctuation mark. Can you believe that this exists\u203d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The interrobang was invented by visionary Martin K. Speckter in 1962 as a way to end a sentence in an excited manner, or express excitement, disbelief, or confusion in the form of a question. It remained in vouge during the 1960s, but largely fell by the wayside thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next time you find yourself in need of more than just a question mark to end your sentence, give the interrobang a try!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cWait, they\u2019re serving pizza for breakfast\u203d\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIs this real life, or am I dreaming\u203d\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDid you see that incredible sunset\u203d\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHow on earth did they fit an elephant in that tiny car\u203d\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWhy is there a penguin in the swimming pool\u203d\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To apply the interrobang in Microsoft Word, type <strong>203D <\/strong>followed by ALT+X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: The interrobang is not available in all fonts. If you see a box appear instead of the interrobang, try a different font. I just don\u2019t understand why all font makers wouldn\u2019t support this\u203d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to take a moment to show my newfound appreciation of the interrobang &#8211; an often-overlooked punctuation mark. Can you believe that this exists\u203d The interrobang was invented by visionary Martin K. Speckter in 1962 as a way to end a sentence in an excited manner, or express excitement, disbelief, or confusion in the &#8230; <a title=\"How Amazing is the Interrobang\u203d\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1939\" aria-label=\"Read more about How Amazing is the Interrobang\u203d\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ryans-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}