{"id":38,"date":"2003-09-21T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2003-09-21T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=38"},"modified":"2003-09-21T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2003-09-21T21:31:10","slug":"last-words-on-said-and-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/last-words-on-said-and-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Last words on said and says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willcopy.blogspot.com\/2003_09_01_willcopy_archive.html#106411921013776563\">Willcopy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/copymassage.blogspot.com\/\">Clay<\/a> have been ruminating over attribution, so I might as well settle the matter:   &#8220;Says&#8221; paraphrases a statement of opinion that presumably would not change. &#8220;Said&#8221; is for direct quotes or paraphrasing statements of fact.  <\/p>\n<p>Whatever you do, get it out of your head that a story must be all one or the other.  The attribution needs to match the needs of the story, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willcopy and Clay have been ruminating over attribution, so I might as well settle the matter: &#8220;Says&#8221; paraphrases a statement of opinion that presumably would not change. &#8220;Said&#8221; is for direct quotes or paraphrasing statements of fact. Whatever you do,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/last-words-on-said-and-says\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}