{"id":13,"date":"2010-12-10T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraldhornsby.wordpress.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2010-12-10T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T16:17:09","slug":"old-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/old-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Old writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started gathering together stuff I&#8217;ve already written. Some of it looks surprisingly good, although there is the occasional glaring error which didn&#8217;t get fixed at the time.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve come across some real stinkers. There&#8217;s a couple of things I wrote for a local regional newspaper competition. I thought they were pretty good at the time. Sure, there&#8217;s words that sort of make sense. They&#8217;re strung together in what look like sentences. The grammar and punctuation are spot on. But oh boy, do these stories stink.<\/p>\n<p>So, conclusion? My writing is better than it used to be. And, hopefully, it&#8217;s more commercial, or at least, people will want to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started gathering together stuff I&#8217;ve already written. Some of it looks surprisingly good, although there is the occasional glaring error which didn&#8217;t get fixed at the time. And I&#8217;ve come across some real stinkers. There&#8217;s a couple of things I wrote for a local regional newspaper competition. I thought they were pretty good at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3CH-d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}