{"id":81,"date":"2007-03-25T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T23:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-03-25T16:46:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T23:46:41","slug":"politics-and-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Politics and the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img ALIGN=\"right\" SRC=\"images\/orwell.jpg\" ALT=\"George Orwell\" \/>Good advice from George Orwell in his <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.orwell.ru\/library\/essays\/politics\/english\/e_polit\">Politics and the English Language<\/a> first published in 1946:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.<\/li>\n<li>Never use a long word where a short one will do.<\/li>\n<li>If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.<\/li>\n<li>Never use the passive where you can use the active.<\/li>\n<li>Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.<\/li>\n<li>Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good advice from George Orwell in his Politics and the English Language first published in 1946: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=81\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Politics and the English Language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}