{"id":9173,"date":"2014-06-13T00:50:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/13\/genderflummox-never-use-this-word-because-its\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:50:13","slug":"genderflummox-never-use-this-word-because-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/13\/genderflummox-never-use-this-word-because-its\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/genderflummox.tumblr.com\/post\/74876722831\/never-use-this-word-because-its-common-instead\">genderflummox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;never use this word because it\u2019s common, instead use all of these things that i\u2019ll call synonyms even though they carry different connotations and will change the meaning of your dialogue if you use them&#8221; \u2014 very bad and unfortunately very common writing advice<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>#amen #a fuckin men #sometimes you do want to say VERY #and sometimes you want to say SAID #and sometimes its important to realize that your characters don&#8217;t talk #like someone shoved the OED up their bumhole #just sayin&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>genderflummox: &#8220;never use this word because it\u2019s common, instead use all of these things that i\u2019ll call synonyms even though they carry different connotations and will change the meaning of your dialogue if you use them&#8221; \u2014 very bad and unfortunately very common writing advice #amen #a fuckin men #sometimes you do want to say &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/06\/13\/genderflummox-never-use-this-word-because-its\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}