{"id":278,"date":"2008-02-29T16:41:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T06:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/02\/keep-up-to-date-when-you-write\/"},"modified":"2012-01-02T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T07:55:05","slug":"keep-up-to-date-when-you-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/02\/keep-up-to-date-when-you-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep up to date when you write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 150px; height: 169px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/images\/calendar.jpg\" alt=\"calendar of dates\" width=\"122\" height=\"126\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>It is important to keep track of the date and what is happening if you want your writing content (and other communications) to be credible and respected.<\/p>\n<p>I heard a perfect example of this morning. As part of a news item in the 10 am radio news, the newscaster said &#8220;&#8230; will be announced later this month.&#8221; Of course, at 10am on the 29th February, there really isn&#8217;t much of the month left for things to happen in! It was probably a simple mistake (perhaps it should have been &#8220;&#8230; later next month&#8230;&#8221;),\u00a0 but it stood out more than the actual news itself.<\/p>\n<p>While people can allow for small mistakes, and sometimes won&#8217;t even notice them, mistakes can change the impact of what you write (or say) and that can be costly. So remember to check:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you have the correct dates<\/li>\n<li>you refer to the appropriate season (for example, today is summer and tomorrow is autumn in Australia, but not in the northern hemisphere)<\/li>\n<li>when unusual, but important, changes occur, such as leap years, daylight savings starts\/ends and when Easter is<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take particular care when you are writing something in advance. For example, if you <a title=\"Blogging when you\u2019re not around\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/blogging-when-youre-not-around\/\">write blog or newsletter posts weeks or even months ahead of publishing them<\/a>, it can be easy to refer to current details instead of the relevant future ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is important to keep track of the date and what is happening if you want your writing content (and other communications) to be credible and respected. I heard a perfect example of this morning. As part of a news item in the 10 am radio news, the newscaster said &#8220;&#8230; will be announced later [&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":[70],"tags":[486,1404,485,185],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-details-2","tag-appropriate","tag-correct-date","tag-keep-up-to-date","tag-write"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}