{"id":308,"date":"2010-05-15T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-05-15T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:23:13","slug":"some-wise-words-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Some Wise Words for the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/damn-diary-writer2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69\" title=\"damn diary writer\" src=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/damn-diary-writer2-234x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. Don&#8217;t use words too big for the subject. Don&#8217;t say &#8220;infinitely&#8221; when you mean &#8220;very&#8221;; otherwise you&#8217;ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.<\/p>\n<p>C.S. Lewis\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Carol Burnett<\/p>\n<p>3. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.<\/p>\n<p>Cyril Connolly<\/p>\n<p>4. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Bulwer-Lytton<\/p>\n<p>5. This is the sixth book I&#8217;ve written, which isn&#8217;t bad for a guy who&#8217;s only read two.<\/p>\n<p>George Burns<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/George_Burns\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 1. Don&#8217;t use words too big for the subject. Don&#8217;t say &#8220;infinitely&#8221; when you mean &#8220;very&#8221;; otherwise you&#8217;ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C.S. Lewis\u00a0 2. Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. Carol Burnett 3. Better to write for yourself and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}