{"id":257619,"date":"2013-09-13T11:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/13\/so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-its-lazy\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:19:05","slug":"so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-its-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/13\/so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-its-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u200eSo avoid using the word \u2018very\u2019 because it\u2019s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don\u2019t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys &#8211; to woo women &#8211; and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won\u2019t do in your essays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>John Keating, <em>Dead Poet\u2019s Society \u00a0<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fawun.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fawun<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200eSo avoid using the word \u2018very\u2019 because it\u2019s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don\u2019t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys &#8211; to woo women &#8211; and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won\u2019t do in your essays. John Keating, Dead Poet\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/13\/so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-its-lazy\/\" 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":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[560,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257619"}],"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=257619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}