{"id":12489,"date":"2019-06-25T20:45:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:28:16","slug":"how-long-is-your-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-long-is-your-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"How long is your drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While there is an expression about having a long drink, length is not usually a measure of drinks. So I was surprised to see an ad for 300m of a soft drink in some recent junk mail!<\/p>\n<p>As always, the message is that <a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/proof-read-your-work\/\">proof reading is really important<\/a>. And it is best done by someone else or at a later time as proofing as you write has limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the person preparing the ad may have written 300ml but something happened at the design or printing stages &#8211; but that is why printing proofs also need to be checked carefully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-long-is-your-drink\/rsz_20160315_141847\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12492\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12492\" src=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_20160315_141847.jpg\" alt=\"Ad for 300m coke\" width=\"600\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_20160315_141847.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_20160315_141847-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/rsz_20160315_141847-150x124.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there is an expression about having a long drink, length is not usually a measure of drinks. So I was surprised to see an ad for 300m of a soft drink in some recent junk mail! As always, the message is that proof reading is really important. And it is best done by someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1743,1742,1431],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-writing-examples","tag-drink","tag-length","tag-proofreading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12852,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}