{"id":20942,"date":"2015-05-20T00:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T00:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Common-Ridiculous-Research-Fails"},"modified":"2015-05-20T00:46:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T00:46:24","slug":"common-ridiculous-research-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/05\/20\/common-ridiculous-research-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Ridiculous Research Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Common Ridiculous Research Fails<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m writing a chapter on research for my <em>Well-Presented Manuscript<\/em> book, and looking for things that writers often get wrong through ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the moment I have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phases of the moon (multiple moons in the same part of the sky will have the same phase; not everyone knows this, apparently, because they don&#8217;t know how moon phases work).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guns. A revolver is not an automatic, and a rifle is not a shotgun, and they differ in ways that can be important to the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any other examples of things that you see frequently in books that make you roll your eyes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Hollywood physics and Hollywood human biology kind of get a genre pass.)<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Common Ridiculous Research Fails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-20942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-well-presented-manuscript","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}