{"id":122,"date":"2018-01-05T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2018-07-31T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T14:26:22","slug":"george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/2018\/01\/05\/george-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. never use a long word where a short one will do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. if it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. never use the passive where you can use the active.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orwell.ru\/library\/essays\/politics\/english\/e_polit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original essay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>learn or die. greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. never use a long word where a short one will do. 3. if it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. 4. never use the passive where you can use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[37,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}