{"id":62,"date":"2009-07-10T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T02:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/07\/10\/900710interrobang\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T17:48:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:48:46","slug":"900710interrobang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/07\/10\/900710interrobang\/","title":{"rendered":"Interrobang Character Entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Wisegeek: what is it?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-an-interrobang.htm\">interrobang<\/a> is a sadly underutilized bit of punctuation, in my humble opinion. That might be because the HTML character entity coding to produce it in web pages is obscure. It doesn&#8217;t appear in my [admittedly dated] <i>HTML: The Definitive Guide <\/i>but, of course, the interweb is chock full of references. So, if you want to include one in your website, use this code: &amp;#8253;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the result of that code, as rendered by your browser in Verdana:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 300%; font-family: verdana;\">\u203d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">OK, there might be one additional reason you don&#8217;t see the interrobang used very often. It doesn&#8217;t\u00a0 render very impressively.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">What&#8217;s up with that\u203d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which we consider the elusive interrobang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-writing","tag-interrobang","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8621,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}