{"id":1566,"date":"2023-11-09T17:09:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T22:16:24","slug":"an-open-email-to-one-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/an-open-email-to-one-of-a-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"An open email to One of a Kind."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following is an open email I recently sent to One of a Kind (OAK), a boutique clothing store. I was curious about their slogan &#8220;If you know you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never got a reply, but I never expected to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I was walking past your 333 Queen St. West location in Toronto, and I was intrigued by your slogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putting a comma after the first &#8220;know&#8221; significantly changes the meaning of the phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you know, you know.<br>This means: if you are aware, then you know.<br>It&#8217;s a complete phrase, but it requires the comma.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you know you know.<br>This means: if you are aware that you know, then\u202f\u2026<br>Without the comma, the phrase is not complete. Then what?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you intend the slogan to be taken in the second sense, where you haven&#8217;t finished the thought, or is the omission of the comma unintentional? Or perhaps you punctuated it as you did so people would ask you about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an open email I recently sent to One of a Kind (OAK), a boutique clothing store. I was curious about their slogan &#8220;If you know you know.&#8221; I never got a reply, but I never expected to: I was walking past your 333 Queen St. West location in Toronto, and I was &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/an-open-email-to-one-of-a-kind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;An open email to One of a Kind.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}