{"id":22,"date":"2025-01-28T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/?p=22"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:59:50","slug":"about-punctuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/about-punctuation\/","title":{"rendered":"About punctuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Seth Godin on <a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2024\/10\/the-run-on-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\">the benefits of making short sentences<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2024\/10\/the-run-on-sentence\/\">The run-on sentence<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on this simple convention.<\/p>\n<p><em>The most direct way to improve your writing is to make your sentences shorter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was reading a magazine article yesterday and was rapidly losing<br \/>\ninterest. The topic appealed to me, but I couldn\u2019t keep reading. Then I<br \/>\nnoticed that halfway through the first column, I was still on the same<br \/>\nsentence.<\/p>\n<p>We have trouble keeping that long a string in our heads at once.<\/p>\n<p>You can make sentences too long.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s hard to make them too short.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span>October 30, 2024<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Seth Godin on the benefits of making short sentences: &nbsp; The run-on sentence Periods were an extraordinary invention. It took thousands of years of writing before we settled on this simple convention. The most direct way to improve your writing is to make your sentences shorter. I was reading a magazine article yesterday and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-well_done"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normon.ovh\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}