{"id":1714,"date":"2008-11-26T09:31:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T09:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2008-11-26T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T09:31:04","slug":"the-lovely-language-of-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1714","title":{"rendered":"The lovely language of the New York Times."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m a big fan of the gray lady, and I&#8217;m also a big fan of long, complicated sentences, but Manohla Dargis should be taken aside and given a strict talking-to for this doozy in <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/26\/movies\/26aust.html?ref=movies\">today&#8217;s review of Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s <i>Australia:<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Though &#8220;Australia&#8221; is narrated by a young boy of mixed race, Nullah (the newcomer Brandon Walters), the illegitimate son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, who is trying to escape the authorities, and while it opens in 1939, shortly before World War II blasted Australian shores, the film isn&#8217;t a bummer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My mother always taught me that, while complexity can be a good thing, the most critical aspect of writing is to not jar the reader out of their flow and make them back up to reread a sentence.  I was quite happily zipping along this review until I hit that number, and though I can parse it quite clearly <i>now,<\/i> I had to reread it <i>twice<\/i> to figure it out.  Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m a big fan of the gray lady, and I&#8217;m also a big fan of long, complicated sentences, but Manohla Dargis should be taken aside and given a strict talking-to for this doozy in today&#8217;s review of Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s Australia: Though &#8220;Australia&#8221; is narrated by a young boy of mixed race, Nullah (the newcomer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-rE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}