{"id":525,"date":"2023-07-08T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=525"},"modified":"2023-07-08T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T14:40:04","slug":"george-orwells-famous-six-rules-for-writing-taken-from-politics-and-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"George Orwell\u2019s famous six rules for writing, taken from \u201cPolitics and the English Language\u201d:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. (iv) Never use the passive where you can use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbootcamp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}