{"id":3342,"date":"2011-09-02T22:40:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T02:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2012-12-20T23:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T03:41:37","slug":"writing-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/writing-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never open a book with the weather.<br \/>\nAvoid prologues.<br \/>\nNever use a verb other than \u201csaid\u201d to carry dialogue.<br \/>\nNever use an adverb to modify the verb \u201csaid.\u201d<br \/>\nKeep your exclamation points under control!<br \/>\nNever use the words \u201csuddenly\u201d or \u201call hell broke loose.\u201d<br \/>\nUse regional dialect, patois, sparingly.<br \/>\nAvoid detailed descriptions of characters.<br \/>\nSame for places and things.<br \/>\nLeave out the parts readers tend to skip.<\/p>\n<p>Source unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never open a book with the weather. Avoid prologues. Never use a verb other than \u201csaid\u201d to carry dialogue. Never use an adverb to modify the verb \u201csaid.\u201d Keep your exclamation points under control! Never use the words \u201csuddenly\u201d or \u201call hell broke loose.\u201d Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. Same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}