{"id":5626,"date":"2005-10-21T17:47:36","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2005-10-21T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T17:47:36","slug":"ot-less-is-fewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5626","title":{"rendered":"OT: LESS IS FEWER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home education is briefly mentioned in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harborlightnews.com\/news\/2005\/1019\/Front_Page\/003.html\">piece<\/a>, but I want to highlight an unrelated sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the addition of all-day Kindergarten, and a major \u201croundup\u201d event to bring Kindergarten numbers up as much as possible, Larson said there is one conclusion to draw: there are simply less young children growing up in Harbor Springs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know there are some professional writers who occasionally drop by.  Stylistically, shouldn&#8217;t it have been &#8220;fewer&#8221;?  I seem to recall that fewer is for count, and less is for non-count.  But I also have been long out-of-school.  Right now, I barely count myself as literate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home education is briefly mentioned in this piece, but I want to highlight an unrelated sentence: With the addition of all-day Kindergarten, and a major \u201croundup\u201d event to bring Kindergarten numbers up as much as possible, Larson said there is one conclusion to draw: there are simply less young children growing up in Harbor Springs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}