{"id":15283,"date":"2016-06-01T06:40:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/06\/01\/15283.html"},"modified":"2016-06-01T06:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:40:40","slug":"editorial-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/06\/01\/editorial-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don't think I've had a dream about editing before. Kind of funny that I should have one while I'm on vacation. (It's probably because I read a work-related email last night that mentioned different levels of editing.)<\/p>\n<p>(Note that in this dream, I was an editor for some company that doesn't exist in real life, and my colleagues were also not real-life people.)<\/p>\n<p>Most of the dream was arguing about\/discussing a couple of specific style issues. I don't remember the one that I found most interesting in the dream, but here are the others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>I was arguing, for some reason that made sense to me in the dream, that we should adopt a house style of never using the word &ldquo;dare&rdquo;. I had some kind of argument to the effect that there was never a politically appropriate context in which it could be used. In real life, I was obviously wrong about that, but the nice side effect of this was that I woke up with the song &ldquo;By My Side&rdquo; (from <cite>Godspell<\/cite>) running through my head.<\/li>\n  <li>The dream had started with my reading a brief article we had published about a woman and her daughter. We had a style guideline that said we should never specify the age of a woman over 25, so the article had a confusingly phrased line that mentioned both of them and said something like &ldquo;she's sixteen,&rdquo; making it sound like that was the mother's age. But the real problem with the article wasn't the stilted phrasing to conform to our weird (though well-intentioned in the dream) editorial guideline, it was that the whole article's focus was something problematic and superficial about the woman (I don't remember what).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suppose if there's a lesson for me to take from this dream, it's the obvious one that I as an editor should try to start by paying attention to the big-picture important issues rather than getting so narrowly focused on tiny details that I miss bigger problems.<\/p>\n<p>(Side note: In my list of categories that can be applied to blog entries, &ldquo;Dreams&rdquo; and &ldquo;Editing&rdquo; are right next to each other.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve had a dream about editing before. Kind of funny that I should have one while I&#8217;m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","category-editing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}