{"id":215,"date":"2003-03-23T19:07:46-05:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T03:07:46+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=215"},"modified":"2003-03-23T19:07:46-05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-24T03:07:46+00:00","slug":"think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/03\/23\/think\/","title":{"rendered":"Think!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote><p>&#8230;whatever we write, we should say clearly what we mean to say. This is summed up by [Thomas Parrish&#8217;s] opening section [to <cite><a title=\"via quinion.com to amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinion.com\/cgi-bin\/r.pl?BT\">The<\/a> <a title=\"via quinion.com to amazon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinion.com\/cgi-bin\/r.pl?OJ\">Grouchy<\/a> <a title=\"via quinion.com to amazon.ca\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quinion.com\/cgi-bin\/r.pl?TB\">Grammarian<\/a><\/cite>], which urges all writers to <q>Think!<\/q> &#8212; not, as the late Thomas J. Watson of IBM meant it, to exercise the little grey cells in the direction of innovation and invention, but just to stop a moment and reflect on what it is one is actually trying to communicate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><cite>Michael Quinion<\/cite>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/\"><cite>World Wide Words<\/cite><\/a>, 22 Mar 03<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;whatever we write, we should say clearly what we mean to say. This is summed up by [Thomas Parrish&#8217;s] opening section [to The Grouchy Grammarian], which urges all writers to Think! &#8212; not, as the late Thomas J. Watson of IBM meant it, to exercise the little grey cells in the direction of innovation and&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}