{"id":802,"date":"2019-08-15T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2019-08-15T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:50:24","slug":"grammarly-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Grammarly Premium Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know this is a free plug, but whatever. I&#8217;ve been using Grammarly&#8217;s free version for a while now, and I made two changes recently. First, I started doing my writing inside of their web application.  Second, I upgraded to their premium version. I figured I&#8217;d give it a month and see for myself whether it was worth it.  In hindsight, I sabotaged that plan quickly by purchasing the annual subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/grammarly-1024x132.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/grammarly-1024x132.png 1024w, https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/grammarly-300x39.png 300w, https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/grammarly-768x99.png 768w, https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/grammarly.png 1922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that it was the right thing to do.  The premium version catches the standard spelling and grammar issues, but it goes further than I had anticipated by finding things like passive voice and shows you feedback in real-time on things like clarity and engagement. I wouldn&#8217;t think of writing without a spell-checker, and I have now promoted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammarly.com\">Grammarly<\/a> to that level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is a free plug, but whatever. I&#8217;ve been using Grammarly&#8217;s free version for a while now, and I made two changes recently. First, I started doing my writing inside of their web application. Second, I upgraded to their premium version. I figured I&#8217;d give it a month and see for myself whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelray.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}