{"id":2863,"date":"2023-06-19T07:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2023-06-19T07:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T06:23:04","slug":"review-smart-brevity-the-power-of-saying-more-with-less-by-jim-vandehei-mike-allen-and-roy-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-smart-brevity-the-power-of-saying-more-with-less-by-jim-vandehei-mike-allen-and-roy-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less, by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Write shorter sentences.   Use one syllable words where possible.  That&#8217;s the message of this short book, which is padded with lots of empty space, some forgettable graphics and endless advertising for the authors&#8217; software which will make you a better writer and person, and your company will do really well too.  (Much of the book reads like it was written by a machine.)  Strunk and White said it better decades ago, and they weren&#8217;t trying to market anything else.  There &#8212; I&#8217;ve just saved you $27.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Write shorter sentences. Use one syllable words where possible. That&#8217;s the message of this short book, which is padded with lots of empty space, some forgettable graphics and endless advertising for the authors&#8217; software which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}