{"id":133,"date":"2008-05-22T03:20:38","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T03:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/22\/on_writing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T03:20:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T03:20:38","slug":"on_writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/22\/on_writing\/","title":{"rendered":"On writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely little <a href=\"http:\/\/158.130.17.5\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003574.html\">article<\/a> on turning the clumsy and ambiguous<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCIA interrogators stripped naked and played earsplitting music to Abu Zubaydah, the first henchman of Osama bin Laden captured by US after the September 11 attacks there five years ago, according to a media report.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\ninto the much more satisfying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCIA interrogators used harsh questioning methods on Abu Zubaydah, the first henchman of Osama bin Laden captured by (the) US after the September 11 attacks there five years ago, stripping him naked and also playing earsplitting music to him.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nGo read.  It&#8217;s a fascinating insight into common gotchas, and how experienced writers construct sentences more or less on autopilot.<\/p>\n<p>\n(HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalscientist.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/i-do-not-think-it-means.html\">Jenny F. Scientist<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely little article on turning the clumsy and ambiguous CIA interrogators stripped naked and played earsplitting music to Abu Zubaydah, the first henchman of Osama bin Laden captured by US after the September 11 attacks there five years ago, according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/05\/22\/on_writing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}