{"id":71608,"date":"2019-04-17T06:53:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71608"},"modified":"2019-04-17T06:53:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T06:53:01","slug":"when-to-italicize-alias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/when-to-italicize-alias\/","title":{"rendered":"When to italicize alias?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a doubt. I have seen that sometimes the word alias is<br \/>\nitalicized and sometimes it is not italicized. Is there any reason<br \/>\nbehind this?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do not italicize alias when you use it to mean an assumed name.<br \/>\n\u201cThe spy used the alias of George Brown on his mission.\u201d On the<br \/>\nother hand, italicize alias when you use it to mean \u201cotherwise<br \/>\nknown as\u201d: John Smith <em>alias<\/em> Machine Gun Johnny (literally \u201cJohn<br \/>\nSmith, otherwise known as Machine Gun Johnny\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a doubt. I have seen that sometimes the word alias is italicized and sometimes it is not italicized. Is there any reason behind this? Thank you. Answer Do not italicize alias when&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[713],"class_list":["post-71608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-alias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71609,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608\/revisions\/71609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}