Grenell is right:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288044347868463105<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288044658951602176<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288045021360422912<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288045571615379458<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288046307740876802<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288046678039212033<\/a><\/p>\n To some it may seem nitpicky. We all make spelling mistakes, after all.<\/p>\n But Grennell’s point about double standards is spot on:<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/288060651555917824<\/a><\/p>\n If you don’t believe him, you must be too young to remember this<\/a>:<\/p>\n A minor slip-up by Vice President Dan Quayle hatched a frenzy and a long-running joke. Quayle led a spelling bee for sixth-grade students while visiting an elementary school in New Jersey in 1992. Working from an inaccurate flash card prepared by a teacher, he corrected William Figueroa, 12, when the child spelled “potato” on the blackboard – making the boy add an unnecessary “e” at the word’s end.<\/p>\n Quayle would never hear the end of it. The media assault for this goof was truly relentless.<\/p>\n * * * <\/p>\n Correction: While the “Asad” spelling is unconventional in the US, it has been used<\/a> by<\/a> others<\/a> and has been used by the U.S. Department of State for many years<\/a>. We’re no experts, but we now think there is more than one way to spell the name. We believe our original post was in error. We apologize.<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/01\/06\/oops-us-state-department-misspells-name-of-syrias-president\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RichardGrenell\/status\/288053924450140160 Grenell is right: https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288044347868463105 https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288044658951602176 https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288045021360422912 https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288045571615379458 https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288046307740876802 https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept\/status\/288046678039212033 To some it may seem nitpicky. We all make spelling mistakes, after all. But Grennell’s point about double standards is spot on: https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/288060651555917824 If you don’t believe him, you must be too young to remember this: A minor slip-up by Vice President Dan Quayle hatched a … Continue reading Oops! US State Department misspells name of Syria’s president; Correction: More than one way to spell it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}