{"id":802,"date":"2020-04-01T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2021-04-02T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:40:11","slug":"its-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/01\/its-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s April Fools&#8217; Day."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve always (seemingly blindly) assumed it was <em>April Fools Day<\/em>, without a possessive apostrophe anywhere, thinking it meant it was April that verbally fooled people, or that the compound noun <em>April Fools<\/em> was acting adjectivally (as an attributive noun) to <em>Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, I&#8217;ve always thought of it as (1) April Fools You Day, (2) April: Time for Practical Jokes Day, or (3) April: Time for Idiots Day, depending on the specific parsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine my surprise, after being exposed to it for so long, to discover my mental myopia and unconscious personal editing of the grammar of the phrase. I&#8217;m just thankful I&#8217;ve never had occasion to style it incorrectly in any professional piece of writing or editing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After looking into it a bit this year (I don&#8217;t know why this year is any different\u2014aside from the particular circumstances in the world at the moment), I now know it&#8217;s most commonly styled as a day <em>belonging<\/em> to many fools in April: <em>April Fools&#8217; Day<\/em>. In short, it&#8217;s April 1, the fools&#8217; day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m curious to know if these people have always been fools, or if it&#8217;s a condition they are suddenly, and temporarily, afflicted with just once a year\u202f\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always (seemingly blindly) assumed it was April Fools Day, without a possessive apostrophe anywhere, thinking it meant it was April that verbally fooled people, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","archive-loop-container"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledandcomposed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}