{"id":1866,"date":"2005-12-09T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T17:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/writing_101\/"},"modified":"2005-12-09T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T17:28:44","slug":"writing_101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/12\/writing_101\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t make it past the lede on <a title=\"U.S. Life Expectancy Hits All-Time High\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2005\/12\/08\/D8ECEHUO0.html\">this AP story<\/a> before my head started spinning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a century of nearly uninterrupted medical improvements and longer lives, it looks like the baby boomers could screw things up. A new government study shows deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop, but it also shows that half of Americans ages 55 to 64 _ including the oldest of the baby boomers _ have high blood pressure, and two in five are obese.<br \/>\nThis means that this large group of aging Americans is in worse shape in some respects than those born a decade earlier were when they were the same age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I summoned the courage to read further, but it didn&#8217;t get any better.  That&#8217;s a real piece of work; one a Comp 101 teacher could use as a case study in how not to write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/12\/writing_101\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Writing 101\"><p>I didn&#8217;t make it past the lede on this AP story before my head started spinning: After a century of nearly uninterrupted medical improvements and longer lives, it looks like the baby boomers could screw things up. A new government study shows deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke continue to drop, but it also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}