{"id":14322,"date":"2004-03-02T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/02\/instructions-for-everything\/"},"modified":"2004-03-02T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T17:16:00","slug":"instructions-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/02\/instructions-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructions For Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you look hard enough in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/shouts\/content\/?040119sh_shouts\" target=\"_blank\"><i>New Yorker<\/i> article by Gabriel Kuris<\/a>, you might just find &ldquo;Instructions For Everything.&rdquo;  My favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>7. To avoid the appearance of sexist language in your writing, try to pluralize, stylize, or just tell lies. Always replace &ldquo;he&rdquo; with &ldquo;he or she.&rdquo; Also replace &ldquo;she&rdquo; with &ldquo;he or she,&rdquo; unless preceded by the phrase &ldquo;he or.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>12. In the rare event that a mature adult of the human species confronts you, stretch your arms above your head to make yourself as tall as possible. Shout strong commands with a strong, commanding shout. If you are assaulted, fall down and play dead. Do not play dead for more than seventy-two hours, or you will die.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very strange&hellip;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulstuff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful Stuff<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107824777685716506?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look hard enough in this New Yorker article by Gabriel Kuris, you might just find &ldquo;Instructions For Everything.&rdquo; My favorites: 7. To avoid the appearance of sexist language in your writing, try to pluralize, stylize, or just tell lies. Always replace &ldquo;he&rdquo; with &ldquo;he or she.&rdquo; Also replace &ldquo;she&rdquo; with &ldquo;he or she,&rdquo; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/02\/instructions-for-everything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instructions For Everything&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}