{"id":4952,"date":"2012-06-25T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2012-06-25T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T15:30:53","slug":"orwell-tweets-nvr-uz-a-lng-wrd-whn-a-short-un-werks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/orwell-tweets-nvr-uz-a-lng-wrd-whn-a-short-un-werks\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwell tweets: nvr uz a lng wrd whn a short &lsquo;un werks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You any damn word you want to &#8212; that\u2019s my motto. But, I like the longer quote. <em style=\"color: red\"><sub>mjh<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2012%2F06%2F25%3Frefid%3D0&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+writersalmanac+%28APM%3A+Garrison+Keillor%27s+The+Writer%27s+Almanac+RSS+Feed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Brendel Playing Schubert by Lisel Mueller | The Writer&#8217;s Almanac with Garrison Keillor<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Orwell said, &quot;So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And, &quot;Never use a long word where a short one will do.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/index.php?date=2012%2F06%2F25%3Frefid%3D0&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+writersalmanac+%28APM%3A+Garrison+Keillor%27s+The+Writer%27s+Almanac+RSS+Feed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Brendel Playing Schubert by Lisel Mueller | The Writer&#8217;s Almanac with Garrison Keillor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You any damn word you want to &#8212; that\u2019s my motto. But, I like the longer quote. mjh Brendel Playing Schubert by Lisel Mueller | The Writer&#8217;s Almanac with Garrison Keillor Orwell said, &quot;So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/qotd\/orwell-tweets-nvr-uz-a-lng-wrd-whn-a-short-un-werks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Orwell tweets: nvr uz a lng wrd whn a short &lsquo;un werks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qotd","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4953,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions\/4953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}