{"id":13756,"date":"2013-11-01T22:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T22:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/01\/i-notice-that-you-use-plain-simple-language\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T22:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T22:39:31","slug":"i-notice-that-you-use-plain-simple-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/01\/i-notice-that-you-use-plain-simple-language\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English\u2015it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don\u2019t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don\u2019t mean utterly, but kill most of them\u2015then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.\u201d &#8211; Mark Twain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/braebuc.tumblr.com\/\">braebuc<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English\u2015it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don\u2019t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don\u2019t mean utterly, but kill most &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/01\/i-notice-that-you-use-plain-simple-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6096,6094,5167,1470,6095,11],"class_list":["post-13756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-except-internet","tag-i-love-how-the-modern-style-ebbs-and-flows","tag-mark-twain","tag-quotes","tag-were-back-to-pretty-short-id-say","tag-writing","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}