{"id":1810,"date":"2009-09-24T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T09:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janice-campbell.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2015-08-31T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T22:55:05","slug":"celebrate-national-punctuation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/celebrate-national-punctuation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate National Punctuation Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, students, put on your party hats! It\u2019s time to celebrate the not-so-lowly punctuation mark. We\u2019re a little late to join the baking contest planned as part of the celebration, but there nothing stopping us from using commas, periods, apostrophes, and semi-colons to our hearts content. 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