{"id":2759,"date":"2019-03-11T19:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisrivard.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2019-03-11T19:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:40:15","slug":"style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/style\/","title":{"rendered":"Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote the last post with my feet kicked up on the sofa on my phone. Like a big text msg. I looked at it this morning and realized I mistook CO2 with CO. One molecule of Carbon, not 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I actually hate that first person narrative style. It&#8217;s boring. This kind of writing usually begins in situ, then backs up to the start of the story. Like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I reached down to pick up they hydration pack that I dropped next to my pack and realized it had frozen solid in the few minutes I had been huddled below the windbreak. <\/p><p><\/p><cite>I made this up.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then back to the start of the story arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I much prefer the more introspective style of writing found in &#8230; I think it might be called The Sharp End &#8230; if we&#8217;re talking about adventure \/ alpinism writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone else direct experience can be interesting, but the subtext of &#8220;what did u learn?&#8221; is way more interesting. I&#8217;m not going to write another first person narrative like the last one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marshmello x Roddy Ricch - Project Dreams (Official Music Video)\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hn7WDtF3nKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the last post with my feet kicked up on the sofa on my phone. Like a big text msg. I looked at it this morning and realized I mistook CO2 with CO. One molecule of Carbon, not 2. I actually hate that first person narrative style. It&#8217;s boring. This kind of writing usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sartor-resartus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisrivard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}