{"id":70,"date":"2004-07-20T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T11:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=70"},"modified":"2004-07-19T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T01:14:52","slug":"adventures-in-bad-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in bad writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/\">Bulwer-Lytton Fiction<\/a> Bad Writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/West\/07\/19\/worst.writing.ap\/index.html\">Contest Award  goes to<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight &#8230; summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp&#8217;s tail &#8230; though the term &#8216;love affair&#8217; now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism &#8230; not unlike &#8216;sand vein,&#8217; which is after all an intestine, not a vein &#8230; and that tarry substance inside certainly isn&#8217;t sand &#8230; and that brought her back to Ramon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-David Zobel, 42\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>o.O  Uh huh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this year&#8217;s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Bad Writing Contest Award goes to: &#8220;She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight &#8230; summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp&#8217;s tail &#8230; though the term &#8216;love affair&#8217; now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism &#8230; not unlike &#8216;sand vein,&#8217; which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}