{"id":17713,"date":"2013-01-31T17:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17713"},"modified":"2013-01-31T17:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:28:16","slug":"i-write-like-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17713","title":{"rendered":"I Write Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/iwl.me\/'>I Write Like<\/a> says I write like David Foster Wallace. Which sucks, since I'm currently reading DFW's \"Girl With Curious Hair\" and am not digging it entirely. And so I was doing a search on \"David Foster Wallace wordy\" to see if anyone else thinks DFW often overdid it, as I do, and ended up on I Write Like. <\/p>\n<p>But things will change. I will use fewer words. Shorter sentences. Ideas will stand up straight, and not sprawl on the rug like drunkards, babbling. Rock-jawed, but not marble-mouthed. Phrases sheared, high and tight, march down the page, delivering meaning at knife-point. Boo. Yah.<\/p>\n<p>(I Write Like says the preceding paragraph sounds like... DFW. I was going for something more like Cormac McCarthy or Faulkner or something. Perhaps I should ignore that site.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Write Like says I write like David Foster Wallace. Which sucks, since I'm currently reading DFW's \"Girl With Curious Hair\" and am not digging it entirely. And so I was doing a search on \"David Foster Wallace wordy\" to see if anyone else thinks DFW often overdid it, as I do, and ended up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}