{"id":228,"date":"2009-05-05T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:32:29","slug":"it-pays-to-be-annoying-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"It pays to be annoying sometimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00006-20090422-1628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-229\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 3px 6px;\" title=\"img00006-20090422-1628\" src=\"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/img00006-20090422-1628-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"img00006-20090422-1628\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>One of my biggest pet peeves is the misuse and swapping about of the words &#8220;than&#8221; and &#8220;then&#8221;.\u00a0 Drives me absolutely nuts.\u00a0 So much so that at my old desktop support position I continually corrected the call tracking tickets of others and let them know of their mistake whenever they&#8217;d use one in the place of the other.\u00a0 Flash-forward two years, I&#8217;m back at the law firm as a consultant for a Blackberry rollout project, and I see the reminder in the photo attached to a co-worker&#8217;s monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Makes me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my biggest pet peeves is the misuse and swapping about of the words &#8220;than&#8221; and &#8220;then&#8221;.\u00a0 Drives me absolutely nuts.\u00a0 So much so that at my old desktop support position I continually corrected the call tracking tickets of others and let them know of their mistake whenever they&#8217;d use one in the place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-3G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10928,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}