{"id":2783,"date":"2012-06-14T09:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:51","slug":"the-sound-of-a-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/14\/the-sound-of-a-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of a Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/11\/the-sound-of-a-sentence\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/draft45.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Constance Hale says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The playful language found in children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books comes naturally to us when we are young.<\/p>\n<p>As we mature, our delight in sounds becomes less visceral.<\/p>\n<p>[W]e often lose the child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love of chaotic vowels and knocking syllables. Even when writing about poetry, we bog down in the language of academia. Our sentences get longer as we pile up clauses and struggle to state a thesis. Then, in our professional lives, we get tangled up in bureaucratese and forget our innate ability to play with sound and sense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/11\/the-sound-of-a-sentence\/\">The Sound of a Sentence &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The playful language found in children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books comes naturally to us when we are young. As we mature, our delight in sounds becomes less visceral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[638,637,279,639],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-constancehale","tag-draft","tag-nytimes","tag-soundandwriting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}