{"id":17837,"date":"2019-02-20T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T18:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17837"},"modified":"2019-02-15T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:19:45","slug":"bluf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/02\/20\/bluf\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUF"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BLUF_(communication)\">BLUF<\/a> (bottom line up front) [\u2026] is a paragraph where the conclusions and recommendations are placed at the beginning of the text, rather than the end, in order to facilitate rapid decision making.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Which seems to me to be pretty much the same approach that a lot of people take by writing \u201ctl;dr: <var>[summary of email]<\/var>\u201d at the top of an email.<\/p>\r\n<p>I think it\u2019s a good approach, but I tend to prefer to write <i>Summary:<\/i> or <i>Short version:<\/i> instead of using an abbreviation.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17838,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837\/revisions\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}