{"id":1598,"date":"2009-07-10T08:32:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T13:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:50:36","slug":"just-stop-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/just-stop-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Just stop. Please."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHone your craft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stop it. It was clever the first three times I heard it in, oh, 1993.  Now, after 3,409,320 times used and an interwebz in which I can document every instance, it&#8217;s way past clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re writers (or editors or agents). Find a different way to say it, because at this point, every time you say it, you sound like a parrot without an original thought in your head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHone your craft.\u201d Stop it. It was clever the first three times I heard it in, oh, 1993. Now, after 3,409,320 times used and an interwebz in which I can document every instance, it&#8217;s way past clich\u00e9. You\u2019re writers (or editors or agents). Find a different way to say it, because at this point, every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569,592],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-da-rulez","category-the-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16873,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/16873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}