{"id":315,"date":"2008-03-12T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2008-03-12T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T16:39:07","slug":"elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Elementary School!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepenultimatecouponwhore.blogspot.com\/\">The penultimate coupon whore<\/a> points us to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticsrant.com\/bb\/reading_level.aspx\">Blog Readability Test<\/a>. What level do readers have to be to understand your blog?<\/p>\n<p>Weeklyrob scored as &#8220;Elementary School,&#8221; which I&#8217;m guessing is the lowest possible. I checked the blogs of friends of mine, and they all scored anywhere from &#8220;Junior High&#8221; to &#8220;Genius.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t want to seem bitter, but what the hell? Check out some prose from a little further down the page:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some conservatives have accused universities of unfair hiring practices, while others have suggested that conservative thinkers avoid academia due to an environment that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hostile to their political opinions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have previously seen workers mopping the floor, shakings hands with customers, receiving and dispensing cash, and doing all manner of germ transacting without bothering to take off the now colonized latex disease-spreaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Show me an elementary student who knows what a now colonized latex disease-spreader is.<\/p>\n<p>Bah.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as the writer, I guess that I should be happy that I&#8217;m easy to understand.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not happy! I want readers to be at GENIUS level, like those at <a href=\"http:\/\/hogswallowing.com\/\">Hogswallowing<\/a>. Or at LEAST high school, like <a href=\"http:\/\/daily-bacon.blogspot.com\/\">The Daily Bacon<\/a>. I mean, come on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The penultimate coupon whore points us to the Blog Readability Test. What level do readers have to be to understand your blog? Weeklyrob scored as &#8220;Elementary School,&#8221; which I&#8217;m guessing is the lowest possible. I checked the blogs of friends of mine, and they all scored anywhere from &#8220;Junior High&#8221; to &#8220;Genius.&#8221; Now, I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit","category-net-and-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}