{"id":1460,"date":"2010-01-22T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:26","slug":"stop-dont-do-it-egregious-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"STOP: Don&#8217;t do it. [Egregious Clich\u00e9s]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/S1nVeRHelYI\/AAAAAAAABv0\/ILGg0isAItE\/s1600-h\/needle-and-thread.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/needle-and-thread.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Writers, writers, <b><i>writers<\/i><\/b>.<br \/>Please. If you&#8217;re a budding writer, a hopeful author, or even just a person who occasionally writes lists, PLEASE do not stoop to using clich\u00e9s. Please. Do. Not.<\/p>\n<p>I just had to put down a book because of this sentence:<\/p>\n<p><i>The tailor smiled and his stitches flew, faster than she could think.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Look: no one, but <i>no one<\/i> sews faster than a person can think. And if they can sew faster than she can think, then <i>boy<\/i> has she got a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Writers, you have been warned. Don&#8217;t Do It.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a public service announcement of the Most Egregious Language Blunders. Thank-you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers, writers, writers.Please. If you&#8217;re a budding writer, a hopeful author, or even just a person who occasionally writes lists, PLEASE do not stoop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-most-egregious-misuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}