{"id":621,"date":"2012-10-16T17:57:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=621"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:57:10","slug":"a-question-for-the-world-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"A Question for the World at Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"drinkingBird\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/drinkingBird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\" \/>I&#8217;m laboring under several deadlines, so no time for a real post, but I do have a question that came up recently, in case anyone wants to weigh in.\u00a0 Recently, as part of a very thorough and detailed critique of some of my writing, I ran across one odd thing.\u00a0 One of my characters had nodded, and the reader asked whether I meant &#8220;nodding yes&#8221; or &#8220;nodding no&#8221;.\u00a0 Is nodding &#8220;no&#8221; even a thing?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard of nodding yes, nodding off, and nodding hello, but I thought it was understood that the &#8220;no&#8221; gesture was called &#8220;shaking one&#8217;s head&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m laboring under several deadlines, so no time for a real post, but I do have a question that came up recently, in case anyone wants to weigh in.\u00a0 Recently, as part of a very thorough and detailed critique of some of my writing, I ran across one odd thing.\u00a0 One of my characters had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}