{"id":27813,"date":"2024-01-10T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=27813"},"modified":"2024-01-10T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:07:40","slug":"im-sorry-but-i-do-this-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/01\/im-sorry-but-i-do-this-k\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Sorry But I Do This, K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get in trouble by my kids for doing it.\u00a0 In my defense I had no idea it was considered rude.\u00a0 I guess because as I grew up in school we learned the importance of punctuation.\u00a0 Adding a period to a text is RUDE?!\u00a0 Who knew.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I was just finishing my sentence not trying to upset the world.\u00a0 When did this become a thing?<\/p>\n<p>Who started it?\u00a0 Who decided, &#8220;You know what?\u00a0 I&#8217;m offended by that use of punctuation.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s the stuff I think about it.\u00a0 Where do things become a &#8216;thing&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also guilty of responding to my kids texts with a simple &#8220;k&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If they say &#8220;can you do this for me&#8221;, or &#8220;can you pick me up here&#8221; or\u00a0 &#8220;Can I hang out with my friend?&#8221; &#8211; sometimes it&#8217;s just easier to reply to the text with &#8220;k&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Take it from me.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t do that.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t do &#8220;K&#8221; or &#8220;KK&#8221; or &#8220;OK&#8221; because they will think you are angry and wonder what they did wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Again, where did this start?\u00a0 They speak in alphabet letters all the time.\u00a0 \u00a0TTYL\u00a0 BRB\u00a0 IFYKYK \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just don&#8217;t know how the new language works.\u00a0 Maybe I just have reached an age where I no longer am in on the joke.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Czpx-XRMEn4\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I get in trouble by my kids for doing it.\u00a0 In my defense I had no idea it was considered rude.\u00a0 I guess because as I grew up in school we learned the importance of punctuation.\u00a0 Adding a period to a text is RUDE?!\u00a0 Who knew.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I was just finishing my sentence not","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5948,5947,5944,3856,5943,5945,5946],"class_list":["post-27813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-chatty-daddy","tag-dillon-michael-white","tag-generational","tag-lingo","tag-punctuation","tag-rude","tag-texting"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 12:42:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/01\/im-sorry-but-i-do-this-k\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27819,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27813\/revisions\/27819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}