{"id":10055,"date":"2004-01-24T22:53:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-24T22:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10055"},"modified":"2004-01-24T22:53:20","modified_gmt":"2004-01-24T22:53:20","slug":"inside-the-belly-of-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/24\/inside-the-belly-of-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the belly of the beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come inside with me to a typical Wednesday editing session with editor person, into the belly of the beast.<\/p>\n<p>Editor person: You got some good stuff.  Good job.<br \/>\nsam: Thanks!<br \/>\nEditor person:  Only,  I&#8217;m very concerned about this part here.<br \/>\nsam: Where&#8217;s here?<br \/>\nEditor person (stabbing the page with a finger): Page 19.  What the hell is this?<br \/>\nsam: Well, the characters are moving towards the trail.<br \/>\nEditor person: I don&#8217;t care where they&#8217;re going.<br \/>\nsam: Why not?<br \/>\nEditor person:  Because there&#8217;s no tension between them.<br \/>\nsam: Right. So, I&#8217;ll add tension.<br \/>\nEditor person (tearing page 19 in half): There&#8217;s nothing to add.  Cardinal rule number 1, you drop the tension, you drop the audience.<br \/>\nsam: I don&#8217;t want to drop the audience.<br \/>\nEditor person: But you do want to clean this crap off my desk.<\/p>\n<p>The wreckage of that particular version of page 19 now lives under a half ton of other scratched out or otherwise discarded pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come inside with me to a typical Wednesday editing session with editor person, into the belly of the beast. Editor person: You got some good stuff. Good job. sam: Thanks! Editor person: Only, I&#8217;m very concerned about this part here. sam: Where&#8217;s here? Editor person (stabbing the page with a finger): Page 19. What the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}