{"id":4013,"date":"2015-09-23T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2015-09-23T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T14:06:06","slug":"shadow-of-the-imaginary-editor-and-then-he-woke-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/23\/shadow-of-the-imaginary-editor-and-then-he-woke-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow of the Imaginary Editor: and then he woke up"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx3\/blog\/editor_all_a_dream.jpg\" alt=\"The Imaginary Editor: It was all a dream\" width=\"501\" height=\"592\" class=\"img_wide_open\">\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of the week once more: the time when I get feedback from my imaginary editor. (For those who came in late, you can catch up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/category\/imaginary-editor\/?order=asc\">here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Last week I decided that my imaginary editor might not be insane, after all: that he might, <em>just possibly<\/em>, be editing somebody else&#8217;s book. If that&#8217;s true, then his notes are really meant for another person&#8230; and for all I know that person may <em>also<\/em> be imaginary. So I shouldn&#8217;t take these notes too personally. Right?<\/p>\n<p>In that spirit I have to say that this week&#8217;s note is really interesting.<\/p>\n<p>How bad does a book have to be before &#8220;And then he woke up&#8221; is an improvement? I mean, we&#8217;re talking <em>Eye of Argon<\/em> bad, here. <em>Manos: the Hands of Fate<\/em> bad. Completely unredeemable. Atrociously, nauseatingly bad. Bad on the <em>scale of the stars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is that he&#8217;s editing, I&#8217;d kind of like to read it now. Or &#8211; better yet! &#8211; make somebody else read it while I monitor the electroencephalograph and stand ready with a bucket full of ice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How bad does a book have to be before &#8220;And then he woke up&#8221; is an improvement? I mean, we&#8217;re talking Eye of Argon bad, here. Manos: the Hands of Fate bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imaginary-editor"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}