diff --git a/_posts/2013-06-05-why-react.md b/_posts/2013-06-05-why-react.md
index c5185436..3ec8f0c6 100644
--- a/_posts/2013-06-05-why-react.md
+++ b/_posts/2013-06-05-why-react.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ see as an advantage over templates for a few reasons:
 
 - **JavaScript is a flexible, powerful programming language** with the ability
   to build abstractions. This is incredibly important in large applications.
-- By unifying your markup with it's corresponding view logic, React can actually
+- By unifying your markup with its corresponding view logic, React can actually
   make views **easier to extend and maintain**.
 - By baking an understanding of markup and content into JavaScript, there's
   **no manual string concatenation** and therefore less surface area for XSS