{"id":3249,"date":"2018-02-23T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T01:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2018-02-24T08:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:29:28","slug":"the-editor-has-fallen-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"The editor has fallen asleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from The New Yorker. This sentence, written by\u00a0<a class=\"Link__link___3dWao \" title=\"Doreen St. F\u00e9lix\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/doreen-st-felix\" rel=\"author\" data-reactid=\"120\">Doreen St. F\u00e9lix<\/a>, is 61 freaking words long and\u00a0contains 12, yes 12, prepositonal phrases. Six such phrases is a sure sign of a severe, if not fatal, case of wordiness.\u00a0Twelve prepositional phrases means the writer must be quarantined for at least a month until this malady clears up.\u00a0Turner Catledge, the great southern gentleman and New York Times managing editor, once said the paper&#8217;s composing\u00a0room had an unlimited cache of periods and admonished his reporters to use them liberally. Doreen, listen up. If you can&#8217;t, \u00a0Doreen&#8217;s editor should immediately report to the school nurse. The narcolepsy must be treated.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the offending and offensive\u00a0prose:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;On<\/strong> Wednesday, seven days <strong>after<\/strong> the nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz walked <strong>into<\/strong> his former high school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas,\u00a0<strong>in<\/strong> Parkland, Florida, and killed seventeen people <strong>with<\/strong> an AR-15, the White House invited a select group <strong>of<\/strong> the survivors <strong>of<\/strong> that shooting,\u00a0and <strong>of<\/strong> mass shootings <strong>in<\/strong> Newtown, Connecticut, and <strong>at<\/strong> Columbine High School and <strong>in<\/strong> Aurora, Colorado, <strong>for<\/strong> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Vy84-VqLGY\">&#8216;listening session<\/a>.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from The New Yorker. This sentence, written by\u00a0Doreen St. F\u00e9lix, is 61 freaking words long and\u00a0contains 12, yes 12, prepositonal phrases. Six such phrases is a sure sign of a severe, if not fatal, case of wordiness.\u00a0Twelve prepositional phrases means the writer must be quarantined for at least a month until this malady [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}