{"id":27,"date":"2008-12-11T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:34:58","slug":"confusing-possessives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/apostrophes\/confusing-possessives\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusing Possessives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em> lists the following holidays as singular possessives: Mother&#8217;s Day, Father&#8217;s Day, New Year&#8217;s Eve, New Year&#8217;s Day. Plural possessive is used for Presidents&#8217; Day.<\/p>\n<p>Your guess is as good as anyone&#8217;s about Secretary&#8217;s vs. Secretaries&#8217; vs. Secretaries Day and Boss&#8217;s vs. Bosses&#8217; vs. Bosses Day.<\/p>\n<p>What would you do if we had a Children&#8217;s Day holiday? Because <em>Children<\/em> is an irregular plural (not formed by adding an <em>s<\/em> or <em>es<\/em>), you would have to use the apostrophe in the title because there is no such word as <em>Childrens<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong> <em>Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Manual of Style lists the following holidays as singular possessives: Mother&#8217;s Day, Father&#8217;s Day, New Year&#8217;s Eve, New Year&#8217;s Day. Plural possessive is used for Presidents&#8217; Day. Your guess is as good as anyone&#8217;s about Secretary&#8217;s vs. Secretaries&#8217; vs. Secretaries Day and Boss&#8217;s vs. Bosses&#8217; vs. Bosses Day. What would you do if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostrophes","category-possessives"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}