{"id":467,"date":"2018-02-25T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/?p=467"},"modified":"2018-02-15T12:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T19:09:33","slug":"delete-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/2018\/02\/25\/delete-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best writing tips I ever learned was <del>that<\/del>, in many cases, you can remove the word &#8220;that&#8221; from a sentence and the sentence will work just fine.  In fact, your sentence will usually work <em>better<\/em> because it&#8217;s shorter!<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this one of the most amazing little writing tips <del>that<\/del> you&#8217;ve ever read?<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s important to remember that there are situations where you can&#8217;t remove the word &#8220;that&#8221;.  That is something I want you to keep an eye out for when you&#8217;re writing.  The word &#8220;that&#8221; is not a bad word, just an overused one that&#8217;s become a kind of filler word in many situations.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for a writing tip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about a word <del>that<\/del> you can remove from many of your sentences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coreassistance.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}