{"id":46687,"date":"2019-04-04T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=46687"},"modified":"2019-04-03T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:46:17","slug":"showing-your-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/showing-your-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing Your Age(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new post at <em>Janice Hardy&#8217;s Fiction University<\/em> offers tips for revealing your characters&#8217; ages without being corny.\u00a0 It&#8217;s okay to say a character&#8217;s age outright and it&#8217;s okay to suggest it by describing their circumstances, but don&#8217;t force a situation where characters announce their ages. While we&#8217;re all away of our ages, we rarely blurt the number out during conversation, and your characters shouldn&#8217;t either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.janicehardy.com\/2014\/02\/an-age-old-question-how-do-you-show.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+janicehardy%2FPUtE+%28Fiction+University%29\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/cbaquiran-135579\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=380178\">C B<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=380178\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new post at Janice Hardy&#8217;s Fiction University offers tips for revealing your characters&#8217; ages without being corny.\u00a0 It&#8217;s okay to say a character&#8217;s age outright and it&#8217;s okay to suggest it by describing their circumstances, but don&#8217;t force a situation where characters announce their ages. While we&#8217;re all away of our ages, we rarely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,468],"tags":[453],"class_list":["post-46687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-fiction-101","tag-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49705,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46687\/revisions\/49705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}