{"id":2925,"date":"2015-11-04T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:10:45","slug":"lightness-of-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/lightness-of-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightness of Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-thumbnail wp-image-2927 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (1)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I spend almost all of my time with the interns\u2019 prose\u00a0reining them in; emphasizing the spare and economic techniques of straight newswriting;\u00a0eliminating the flowery, ruling out the editorial voice. So it\u2019s a beautiful thing, in the week\u2019s student newspaper, to see <strong>Amy Mrotek \u201916<\/strong> in full and wonderful flight; owning her voice, relishing all the words \u2013 all of them!\u00a0\u2013\u00a0uncrushed. Here she is on <a href=\"https:\/\/sntimes.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/04\/dreaming-to-disaster\/\">Dreaming to Disaster<\/a>.\u00a0Isn\u2019t this great?\u00a0And here\u2019s Amy from a week or two ago, on <a href=\"https:\/\/sntimes.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/19\/the-unbearable-lightness-of-boredom\/\">The Unbearable Lightness of Boredom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, speaking of the St. Norbert Times, here\u2019s a very <a href=\"https:\/\/sntimes.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/04\/snc-uses-livesafe-as-official-safety-mobile-app\/\">classy retraction<\/a> to\u00a0the\u00a0front-page lead of\u00a0that\u00a0previous issue. The original, sparked by contact from a savvy marketer, really made no untrue statements. It misled simply by omission. This\u00a0full-page correction was the writers\u2019 own initiative, graciously and promptly offered. What a great service to her readers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spend almost all of my time with the interns\u2019 prose\u00a0reining them in; emphasizing the spare and economic techniques of straight newswriting;\u00a0eliminating the flowery, ruling out the editorial voice. So it\u2019s a beautiful thing, in the week\u2019s student newspaper, to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/uncategorized\/lightness-of-being\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[24,357],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}