{"id":51268,"date":"2012-03-13T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=51268"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:35:15","slug":"i-like-crunchy-brittle-crackly-words-such-as-splinter-grapple-jostle-crusty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=51268","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/03\/i-like-words.html\">A marvelous letter from a copywriter<\/a> looking for a job as a screenwriter in Hollywood in 1934.  Fantastic.  And I love that the gambit worked.<\/p>\n<p>This letter made me recall an old long-ago post I wrote once upon a time where I listed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1279\">my favorite words<\/a>.  Not my favorite concepts, but my favorite words.  Then there was a fun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5617\">word meme<\/a>, when I still did &#8220;memes&#8221;, and out of that word meme came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5618\">this brilliance<\/a> (read the post, but the brilliance is in the comments). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marvelous letter from a copywriter looking for a job as a screenwriter in Hollywood in 1934. Fantastic. And I love that the gambit worked. This letter made me recall an old long-ago post I wrote once upon a time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=51268\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62394,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51268\/revisions\/62394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}