{"id":5072,"date":"2021-02-16T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2021-02-16T15:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:10:43","slug":"dont-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/writing\/dont-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t do This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Don&#8217;t Do This!<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">Writing ain&#8217;t easy, so don&#8217;t write in a way that makes things more difficult. Write what you mean. Don&#8217;t write what you don&#8217;t mean. Like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Avoid not only construction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent: 30px;\">Rather than writing: Not only did the house have blue shutters, it was painted red, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Write: The house was red with blue shutters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Write What You Mean<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Do This! Writing ain&#8217;t easy, so don&#8217;t write in a way that makes things more difficult. Write what you mean. Don&#8217;t write what you don&#8217;t mean. Like this: Avoid not only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}