{"id":4121,"date":"2007-11-13T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/13\/as-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:01:15","slug":"as-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/13\/as-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"As brevity is the soul of wit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competing with last May&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=3136807\" title=\"ABC News: Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo\">Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo<\/a>&#8221; for best headline of 2007: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2007\/11\/09\/1194329425200.html\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald: Hamlet Shaken by Murder Then Suicide\">Hamlet Shaken by Murder Then Suicide<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>(both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/05\/13390.html\" title=\"kottke.org: I know it's only 2007, but this is the headline of the decade.\">via<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/11\/14447.html\" title=\"kottke.org: A definite contender for the headline of the year\">Kottke<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competing with last May&#8217;s &#8216;Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo&#8217; for best headline of 2007: &#8216;Hamlet Shaken by Murder Then Suicide&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}