{"id":505,"date":"2010-09-04T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2010-09-03T03:06:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T07:06:44","slug":"a-few-tenets-of-writing-via-vonnegut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/04\/a-few-tenets-of-writing-via-vonnegut\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Tenets of Writing Via Vonnegut"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>1. Find a subject you care about.<br \/>\n2. Do not ramble, though.<br \/>\n3. Keep it simple.<br \/>\n4. Have the guts to cut.<br \/>\n5. Sound like yourself.<br \/>\n6. Say what you mean to say.<br \/>\n7. Pity the readers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKurt Vonnegut, quoted in <em>Science Fictionisms<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Things to keep in mind until you no longer need to keep them in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Find a subject you care about. 2. Do not ramble, though. 3. Keep it simple. 4. Have the guts to cut. 5. Sound like yourself. 6. Say what you mean to say. 7. Pity the readers. \u00e2\u20ac\u201dKurt Vonnegut, quoted in Science Fictionisms Things to keep in mind until you no longer need to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2544],"tags":[468,467,466],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-dissect-yourself","tag-do-the-hardest-work","tag-unflinching-honesty-is-actually-the-best-policy-unlike-other-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->