{"id":2804,"date":"2006-04-21T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T16:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/heres-a-weird-thing.html"},"modified":"2006-04-21T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T16:08:47","slug":"heres-a-weird-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/heres-a-weird-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a weird thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

You turn on Catholic radio and hear the host of the show<\/a> that’s on is reading a very loooooong <\/em>passage from one of your books. Last chapter of De-coding, <\/em>in fact. And all you can think is, "Boy, I need to write shorter sentences….." <\/p>\n

And you know, I tell my kids to do that all the time: when you’re rewriting a paper, read it aloud – you’ll catch a lot of mistakes that you might otherwise miss as you skim over your all-to-familiar text. You might. Like really loooooooong <\/em>sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You turn on Catholic radio and hear the host of the show that’s on is reading a very loooooong passage from one of your books. Last chapter of De-coding, in fact. And all you can think is, "Boy, I need to write shorter sentences….." 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