{"id":15645,"date":"2016-08-18T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/?p=15645"},"modified":"2023-08-18T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:23:59","slug":"muphrys-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/2016\/08\/18\/muphrys-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Muphry&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muphry\u2019s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy\u2019s Law. Muphry\u2019s Law dictates that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the stronger the sentiment in (a) and (b), the greater the fault; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>any book devoted to editing or style will be internally inconsistent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-canberra-society-of-editors wp-block-embed-canberra-society-of-editors\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"WMGKmdhkZd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editorscanberra.org\/muphrys-law\/\">Muphry&#8217;s Law<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Muphry&#8217;s Law&#8221; &#8212; Canberra Society of Editors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.editorscanberra.org\/muphrys-law\/embed\/#?secret=WMGKmdhkZd\" data-secret=\"WMGKmdhkZd\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muphry\u2019s Law is the editorial application of the better-known Murphy\u2019s Law. Muphry\u2019s Law dictates that:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[76,67,75],"class_list":["post-15645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","tag-english","tag-life","tag-siggimus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQPg2-44l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15646,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions\/15646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}