{"id":367,"date":"2008-04-30T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T04:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-04-30T00:03:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T04:03:50","slug":"just-whom-does-she-think-she-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Just Whom Does She Think She Is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Pajamasmedia, <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/rogerkimball\/2008\/04\/29\/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her\/\">Roger Kimball<\/a> quotes a letter from a professor to her (former) students, threatening to sue them for poor course evaluations. Although he inserts one &#8216;SIC&#8217; (why the capitalization?) in the second sentence of her letter, it really needs two:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I regret to inform you that I am pursuing a lawsuit in which I am accusing some of you (whom shall go unmentioned in this email) of violating Title VII of anti-federal [SIC] discrimination laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neither Kimball nor nor any of his 6 commenters (as I write) nor any of the 43 commenters on the original <a href=\"http:\/\/dartlog.net\/2008\/04\/professor-to-sue-students-for.php\">Dartlog post<\/a> notes the gross misuse of the relative pronoun: &#8216;whom&#8217; should of course be &#8216;who&#8217;. An odd error for someone who &#8220;taught writing this year at Dartmouth College&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Pajamasmedia, Roger Kimball quotes a letter from a professor to her (former) students, threatening to sue them for poor course evaluations. Although he inserts one &#8216;SIC&#8217; (why the capitalization?) in the second sentence of her letter, it really needs two: I regret to inform you that I am pursuing a lawsuit in which I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}