{"id":6755,"date":"2012-09-25T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T17:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2012-09-27T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:40:50","slug":"writing-a-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6755","title":{"rendered":"Writing A Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting and helpful essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg about writing sentences.\u00a0 He says that most sentences do not say what the writer intended they say, and that a sentence writer needs to learn to understand that his sentence will be read literally. \u00a0 Also, a writer needs to learn to read her own writing completely objectively to make sure it says what she intended.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Trouble With Intentions\" href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/24\/the-trouble-with-intentions\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\">The Trouble With Intentions<\/a> &#8211; by Verlyn Klinkenborg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting and helpful essay by Verlyn Klinkenborg about writing sentences.\u00a0 He says that most sentences do not say what the writer intended they say, and that a sentence writer needs to learn to understand that his sentence will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[1059,74,913,1076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6758,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions\/6758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}