{"id":1231,"date":"2012-03-08T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T16:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2012-03-08T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T16:34:37","slug":"how-to-cite-a-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/how-to-cite-a-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Cite a Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wbur\/3004383472\/\" title=\"Talkin' Twitter &amp; Tweeting the Election by WBUR, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3276\/3004383472_b2f390db4c_z.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"Talkin' Twitter &amp; Tweeting the Election\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you've ever wondered how to cite a tweet in an academic paper, wonder no more. The MLA has devised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\/style\/handbook_faq\/cite_a_tweet\">guidelines<\/a> for just this scenario.<\/p>\n<p><small><span about=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wbur\/3004383472\/\" xmlns:dct=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\" xmlns:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wbur\/3004383472\/\" property=\"dct:title\">Photo<\/a> courtesy <a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" property=\"cc:attributionName\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wbur\/\">WBUR<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a><\/span><small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you've ever wondered how to cite a tweet in an academic paper, wonder no more. The MLA has devised guidelines for just this scenario. Photo courtesy WBUR \/ CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[62,214,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-1231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-social","7":"tag-citations","8":"tag-mla","9":"tag-twitter","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-jR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9428,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/after-the-deep-breath-then-what-creating-a-virtual-presence\/","url_meta":{"origin":1231,"position":0},"title":"After the deep breath, then what?  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