{"id":3970,"date":"2016-03-11T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2016-03-11T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:58:24","slug":"5-annoying-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2016\/03\/5-annoying-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"5 annoying tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had listened to one webinar too many, it seems.This one was giving advice on how to shorten the content to grab your audience&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Attention span and competition are inversely proportionate it seems.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking about Anna Akhmatova.<\/p>\n<p>She was a Russian poet, oppressed by the Soviets. Her works were hand-copied, and passed between eager readers. Eventually to save the life of her son, she was forced to write a poem in praise of the Soviets.<\/p>\n<p>I want to weep when I compare this to the shrinking world of words.<\/p>\n<p>How did the dias of literary royalty get filled with Oprah&#8217;s book club authors?<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Gilbert, that champion of the international yoga pants brigade, is passed around now?<\/p>\n<p>what is left?<\/p>\n<p>headlines?<\/p>\n<p>there are webinars on those too.<\/p>\n<p>I think i hate everything right now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had listened to one webinar too many, it seems.This one was giving advice on how to shorten the content to grab your audience&#8217;s attention. Attention span and competition are inversely proportionate it seems. I am thinking about Anna Akhmatova. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2016\/03\/5-annoying-tips\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}