{"id":953,"date":"2008-09-08T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2008-09-08T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:18:44","slug":"what-the-heck-is-the-past-tense-of-spec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/language\/editing\/what-the-heck-is-the-past-tense-of-spec\/","title":{"rendered":"What the heck is the past tense of spec?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, this comes up all the time, and after all these years I have yet to decide what&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I e-mailed a print rep earlier today to ask, &#8220;Would the 60# Natural Smooth paper be cheaper than the one I had speced?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Should it be specked? speced? specced? spec&#8217;d? or something else?<\/p>\n<p>And no, no one would say &#8220;the one I specified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, this comes up all the time, and after all these years I have yet to decide what&#8217;s right. For example, I e-mailed a print&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}