{"id":117762,"date":"2016-01-19T04:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T04:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/19\/queen-of-fallen-angels-laissezferre\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T04:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T04:25:22","slug":"queen-of-fallen-angels-laissezferre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/19\/queen-of-fallen-angels-laissezferre\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/queen-of-fallen-angels.tumblr.com\/post\/125511182106\" target=\"_blank\">queen-of-fallen-angels<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/laissezferre.tumblr.com\/post\/115929388367\" target=\"_blank\">laissezferre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/faewithoutconsequence.tumblr.com\/post\/115862390369\" target=\"_blank\">faewithoutconsequence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cloaga.tumblr.com\/post\/109412574427\" target=\"_blank\">cloaga<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>i love that charles dickens got paid by the word. like i cant even be mad when he\u2019s boring and long-winded bc i would do xactly the same??? i wouldnt use contractions or colours at all. want to say the word red? too bad. we r now only using \u201cthe colour of freshly-spilled blood on snow; the hue of the horizon when the sun sets over the deserts of sub-saharan Africa\u201d BOOM guess who can afford 2 eat now: me and my boi dickens\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What I love about Alexandre Dumas, in contrast, is he got paid by the line. So it\u2019s not really wordy, it more like 80% dialogue which makes it sound pretty modern but also ends up like-<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are we going now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich city?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to Paris?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vlajean.tumblr.com\/tagged\/can-you-imagine-the-kind-of-extended-torture-we-would-have-been-subject-to-if-victor-hugo-had-been-paid-by-the-pun\" target=\"_blank\"># can you imagine the kind of extended torture we would have been subject to if victor hugo had been paid by the pun<\/a>\u00a0(via <a href=\"http:\/\/vlajean.tumblr.com\/post\/115882033746\/faewithoutconsequence-cloaga-i-love-that-charles\" target=\"_blank\">vlajean<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>is George RR Martin paid by deaths<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>queen-of-fallen-angels: laissezferre: faewithoutconsequence: cloaga: i love that charles dickens got paid by the word. like i cant even be mad when he\u2019s boring and long-winded bc i would do xactly the same??? i wouldnt use contractions or colours at all. want to say the word red? too bad. we r now only using \u201cthe colour &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/19\/queen-of-fallen-angels-laissezferre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[547,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}