{"id":37,"date":"2013-05-14T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:31:59","slug":"details-details-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/details-details-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Details, Details, Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What separates mediocre from good or great writing? Details. In the book,\u00a0 <em>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, <\/em>the style is dated, but the details held me in the story. Betty Smith took the time to incorporate significant details related to the 1910-1915&#8217;s: money tied in the corner of handkerchiefs, carrying tin to be sold for precious pennies and reading the family Bible as a way to learn to read.<\/p>\n<p>In a more recent read of a current author, I felt let down. She told us what s<em>he saw <\/em>instead of drawing us in with sensory details. True, her drama moved the story along, but it lacked connections that will sustain the book in my memory and, it didn&#8217;t inspire me to write her &#8216;turns of phrase&#8217; in my book of memorable quotes .<\/p>\n<p>Which one is the better book? I choose the story with details; they are etched in my mind for all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What separates mediocre from good or great writing? Details. In the book,\u00a0 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the style is dated, but the details held me in the story. Betty Smith took the time to incorporate significant details related to the 1910-1915&#8217;s: money tied in the corner of handkerchiefs, carrying tin to be sold for precious pennies and reading the family Bible as a way to learn to read. In a more recent read of a current author, I felt let down. She told us what she saw instead of drawing us in with sensory details. True, her drama moved&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-details-in-writing","tag-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}