{"id":197,"date":"2010-06-25T19:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T02:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-06-25T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T02:45:29","slug":"trimming-the-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/trimming-the-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trimming the fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After adding about five hundred words to my Chapter 1, I&#8217;ve gone back and found some fat to trim, bringing the word count back down by three hundred. Tightening the prose is well worth the effort as I prepare for launch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also done some editing in the second and third chapters, cutting some fat and adding some clarification. There&#8217;s a hole in my memory &#8211; the exact events that transpired between July 1976 and September 1976. Somehow I arrived in Shannon but Roger wasn&#8217;t there. My first recollection of him was when we arrived in Sligo and he was checking out the fishing around the Silver Swan Hotel. Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After adding about five hundred words to my Chapter 1, I&#8217;ve gone back and found some fat to trim, bringing the word count back down by three hundred. Tightening the prose is well worth the effort as I prepare for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/trimming-the-fat\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}