{"id":374,"date":"2007-06-10T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=374"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:27","slug":"the-editor-and-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/06\/the-editor-and-the-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"The Editor and the Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"editor_sword_500.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/editor_sword_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"533\" \/><br \/>\nThis is an illo I just did for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly. This installment of the Soapbox column was penned by author Harriet Rubin who sums her rallying cry for more old-fashioned editing as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Builders of ancient temples in Asia typically carved two huge statues at the temple gate. One holds a book, the other a sword. The book symbolizes knowledge. The sword is there to remind people to cut things off: to edit. Knowledge is not wisdom until you slice through the words you hear, judge them and are moved to silence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an illo I just did for Publisher&#8217;s Weekly. This installment of the Soapbox column was penned by author Harriet Rubin who sums her rallying cry for more old-fashioned editing as follows: &#8220;Builders of ancient temples in Asia typically carved two huge statues at the temple gate. One holds a book, the other a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}