{"id":1209,"date":"2018-02-24T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:46:56","slug":"need-singular-wont-seem-wrong-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/need-singular-wont-seem-wrong-long\/","title":{"rendered":"We need the singular &#8220;they&#8221; \u2013 and it won\u2019t seem wrong for long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/we-need-the-singular-they-and-it-wont-seem-wrong-for-long\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay<\/a> just went up on Aeon.co.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/we-need-the-singular-they-and-it-wont-seem-wrong-for-long\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1210 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aeon-illus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aeon-illus.jpg 792w, http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aeon-illus-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aeon-illus-768x443.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.0625rem;\">It&#8217;s a historical perspective on the controversy over \u201cthey\u201d as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun. Based on my experience as a copyeditor on the front lines during two earlier major usage shifts, it argues that using &#8220;they&#8221; is fundamentally an issue of social justice.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest essay just went up on Aeon.co. It&#8217;s a historical perspective on the controversy over \u201cthey\u201d as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun. Based on my experience as a copyeditor on the front lines during two earlier major usage shifts, it argues that using &#8220;they&#8221; is fundamentally an issue of social justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[160,172,170,171,173],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-issues","tag-editing","tag-gender-neutral-pronouns","tag-nonbinary-gender-identity","tag-singlar-they","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephaniegolden.net\/writing_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}