{"id":1736,"date":"2008-09-06T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/06\/and_people_thin\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T12:54:00","slug":"and_people_thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/06\/and_people_thin\/","title":{"rendered":"And people think I\u2019m fussy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I giggled at this passage<\/strong> that I just encountered in The Joe Orton Diaries<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Willes<\/a> rang up. ‘What do you mean by sending me such an atrocious script?’ he said. ‘What?’ I said. ‘All the “O’s” are out of line. I can’t read a script like that. Haven’t you another copy? ‘No,’ I said. “I’ll have to get it retyped,’ he said. ‘I can’t let the actors see a script in that state.’ ‘Did you read the script<\/a>?’ I said. “A little.’ ‘What did you think of it?’ ‘I thought it rather dated,’ he said, ‘though that may have been the effect of the “O’s”.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

See? Good typography makes a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I giggled at this passage that I just encountered in The Joe Orton Diaries: Peter Willes rang up. ‘What do you mean by sending me such an atrocious script?’ he said. ‘What?’ I said. ‘All the “O’s” are out of line. I can’t read a script like that. Haven’t you another copy? ‘No,’ I said. … Continue reading “And people think I\u2019m fussy?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71709,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/71709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}