{"id":89,"date":"2014-08-31T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-08-31T23:06:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T04:06:13","slug":"cappon-pg-1-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/2014\/08\/31\/cappon-pg-1-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Cappon pg. 1-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep it easy. No one likes to be confused.<\/p>\n<p>Keep everything short, sweet, and to the point. Don\u2019t make it pretty. Everything doesn\u2019t always need an explanation. On the first page it says: \u201cNews writing should be clear, concise, accurate, and interesting.\u201d I learned a lot from this reading and was reminded of a lot of things I had forgotten as well. \u201cWriting is the art of second thought.\u201d You put everything down, but it isn\u2019t perfect. So then you go through it again to make it perfect. Editing the piece by finding the perfect balance of words, going big and fancy isn&#8217;t always necessary. Everything doesn\u2019t need to be decorated; things can stay as they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimplify. Avoid clutter. Prune. Think twice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep it easy. No one likes to be confused. Keep everything short, sweet, and to the point. Don\u2019t make it pretty. Everything doesn\u2019t always need an explanation. On the first page it says: \u201cNews writing should be clear, concise, accurate, and interesting.\u201d I learned a lot from this reading and was reminded of a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-august","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/storiesinthedark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}