{"id":493,"date":"2012-06-28T18:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T23:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-06-26T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T23:45:26","slug":"practice-for-all-you-beta-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Practice For All You Beta Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradinggame.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-495\" title=\"FPGrader\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FPGrader1-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FPGrader1-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/FPGrader1.png 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Not my beta readers, of course; the fine folks who read my first drafts are a lightning-quick band of editors with encyclopedic\u00a0knowledge of grammar and vast, sprawling vocabularies, dual-wielding\u00a0pens.<\/p>\n<p>But for other aspiring readers out there, helping out less-fortunate writers (or TAs for that matter), this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradinggame.com\/\">first-person grader<\/a> might sharpen your skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my beta readers, of course; the fine folks who read my first drafts are a lightning-quick band of editors with encyclopedic\u00a0knowledge of grammar and vast, sprawling vocabularies, dual-wielding\u00a0pens. But for other aspiring readers out there, helping out less-fortunate writers (or TAs for that matter), this first-person grader might sharpen your skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}