{"id":2687,"date":"2012-02-25T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:19","slug":"sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2012\/02\/sentenced-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentenced to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello out there.\u00a0 I’ve been thinking.\u00a0 My sentences?\u00a0 Too long.\u00a0 Way too long.\u00a0 Too many subordinate clauses.\u00a0 Too many fancy words.\u00a0 Like “subordinate.”\u00a0 And “clause.”<\/p>\n

I’m no professor.\u00a0 Why talk like one?\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Three, four words max.\u00a0 It’s all you need.\u00a0 Word, word, word, period.\u00a0 There you go.\u00a0 Long sentences suck.\u00a0 Short ones rock.<\/p>\n

And paragraphs.\u00a0 Don’t get me started.\u00a0 A waste of time.\u00a0 Space too.\u00a0 Just look at Tolstoy.\u00a0 No minimalist, he.\u00a0 War and Peace?\u00a0 Thirteen hundred pages.\u00a0 Way too long.\u00a0 Get real.\u00a0 Bolkonsky, Drubetskoy, Kutuzov, Rostova.\u00a0 Four paragraphs right there.\u00a0 Oh, my eyelids.<\/p>\n

So, concise is nice.\u00a0 So long, long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello out there.\u00a0 I’ve been thinking.\u00a0 My sentences?\u00a0 Too long.\u00a0 Way too long.\u00a0 Too many subordinate clauses.\u00a0 Too many fancy words.\u00a0 Like “subordinate.”\u00a0 And “clause.” I’m no professor.\u00a0 Why talk like one?\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Three, four words max.\u00a0 It’s all you … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}