{"id":182,"date":"2008-07-09T14:31:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2008-07-11T13:19:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:19:53","slug":"some-advice-on-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Some advice on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems little prospect of me getting caught up on blogging any time in the immediate future. The odds are roughly equivalent to those of me getting caught up on yard work, I think. Just to make it clear that I haven&#8217;t actually <em>vanished<\/em>, I wanted to share with you a couple of photos and some advice.<\/p>\n<p>First, the advice. If you are on a career path that requires writing, and particularly one that requires your writing to be carefully reviewed, do <em>not<\/em> under any circumstances submit a piece of work that inspires the reviewer to write marginalia such as &#8220;ick!&#8221; and &#8220;huh?&#8221;. Poor writing should be fixed before submission. The occasional error is forgivable, but I&#8217;m only on the first page. I&#8217;m generally a thorough, generous and helpful reviewer, but the authors have to put in <em>some<\/em> effort. (And no, the authors will not see the copy I&#8217;m writing on, and all &#8220;ick&#8221; and &#8220;huh&#8221; comments will be expanded before being returned to the editor.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something much more pleasant: my new hanging baskets!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/petunia1-20080709.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging basket of petunias\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/petunia2-20080709.jpg\" alt=\"Hanging basket of petunias\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems little prospect of me getting caught up on blogging any time in the immediate future. The odds are roughly equivalent to those of me getting caught up on yard work, I think. Just to make it clear that I haven&#8217;t actually vanished, I wanted to share with you a couple of photos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-logophilia","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}