{"id":145,"date":"2008-05-11T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T23:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=145"},"modified":"2008-05-11T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T23:43:30","slug":"hypertext-forcing-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/05\/hypertext-forcing-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERTEXT: Forcing Prose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">O<\/span>kay, so I wandered off into spring cleaning once the potato salad was done&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In reading K&#8217;s piece in Hypertextopia, and after reading a short story she&#8217;d written in traditional form, I see the same sense of short sentence structure that punctuates her style and yet in the hypertext the sentences are statements, self contained and complete.&nbsp; In the linear format, they are emphasizing an idea or event in staccato repetition.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The hypertext statements are separated by a decision on the reader&#8217;s part to go a step further, sometimes being given a choice in direction.&nbsp; This separation based on reader choice would seem to ask for as much information and direction to make an informed decision.&nbsp; Yet, the opposite appears to be more effective; the less information obtained, the further the reader wishes to travel, even with an amount of risk involved of losing the trail.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting concept.&nbsp; One that would ask something more than trust from the reader; rather, one that would request abandonment of the <em>bookmark<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">O<\/span>kay, so I wandered off into spring cleaning once the potato salad was done&#8230; In reading K&#8217;s piece in Hypertextopia, and after reading a short story she&#8217;d written in traditional form, I see the same sense of short sentence structure that punctuates her style and yet in the hypertext the sentences are statements, self contained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}