{"id":882,"date":"2007-05-30T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2007-05-30T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T21:38:00","slug":"gallimaufry-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry"},"content":{"rendered":"

¶ Now this is a poorly written headline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

¶ As John Leo would explain in “Thoughts on Good Writing”<\/a>, the headline writer needs to “work to avoid the dead idioms that we all seem to carry in our heads.” <\/p>\n

¶ Weirdest search string to bring someone here in the past month: “Is the vagina of the pagan priestess a holy place?” (punctuation supplied). Discuss among yourselves. This site was the top search result<\/a>.<\/p>\n

¶ They are using laser analysis on the Book of Kells<\/a>, and, coincidentally, the Vikings are headed for Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

¶ Now this is a poorly written headline. ¶ As John Leo would explain in “Thoughts on Good Writing”, the headline writer needs to “work to avoid the dead idioms that we all seem to carry in our heads.” ¶ Weirdest search string to bring someone here in the past month: “Is the vagina of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,3,12],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-archaeology","tag-blogging","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ee","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2141,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2141","url_meta":{"origin":882,"position":0},"title":"‘Free Classic Weird Fiction’","author":"Chas S. 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