{"id":671,"date":"2012-12-04T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=671"},"modified":"2012-12-04T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T23:27:14","slug":"why-didnt-i-think-of-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t I Think of That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_673\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"size-full wp-image-673\" title=\"helenSword\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/helenSword.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"236\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen Sword, ready to test writing<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_674\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-674\" class=\"size-full wp-image-674\" title=\"EBWhite\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/EBWhite1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"190\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E.B. White appears skeptical<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had a<a title=\"Test Your Writing With a Few Handy Rules\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=543\"> post a while back about this test of how well one writes<\/a>, and I ran a few authors through it to see how they measured up. \u00a0But I never thought of running\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4344#more-4344\">old E.B. White, of <em>Elements of Style<\/em> fame, though the test<\/a>. \u00a0The results are about what you&#8217;d expect. \u00a0So the question becomes, was E.B. White a bad writer (hard to believe if you&#8217;ve read Charlotte&#8217;s Web), did he suffer from a case of &#8220;Do as I say, not as I do&#8221;, or has Dr. Sword (not a super villain, so matter what you may think) do a poor job of quantifying the rules that define good writing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had a post a while back about this test of how well one writes, and I ran a few authors through it to see how they measured up. \u00a0But I never thought of running\u00a0old E.B. White, of Elements of Style fame, though the test. \u00a0The results are about what you&#8217;d expect. \u00a0So the [&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-671","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\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}