{"id":341,"date":"2005-11-08T17:32:25","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T23:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/341"},"modified":"2005-11-08T17:32:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T23:32:25","slug":"volunteer-to-proofread-for-project-gutenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/341","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer to proofread for Project Gutenberg!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a word geek&#8217;s secret pleasure. Yes,   editing can be a drag. Proofing is editing&#8217;s ugly younger cousin from Nebraska. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgdp.net\/c\/default.php\">Distributed Proofreaders<\/a> is a volunteer organization that provides proofing for Project Gutenberg.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pgdp.net\/c\/pinc\/templates\/project_gutenberg\/graphics\/logo.gif\" alt=\"Distributed Proofreaders\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still,   having a hand in proofing all the public domain books that are being digitized is a good,   helpful thing. I don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve had to read an article for class that has a misspelling because it wasn&#8217;t proofed. We might as well work on this as the stuff comes out, instead of waiting until it&#8217;s a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, sign up. I&#8217;m going to, and I&#8217;m super cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a word geek&#8217;s secret pleasure. Yes, editing can be a drag. Proofing is editing&#8217;s ugly younger cousin from Nebraska. Distributed Proofreaders is a volunteer organization that provides proofing for Project Gutenberg. Still, having a hand in proofing all the public domain books that are being digitized is a good, helpful thing. I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neat-o-sites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}