{"id":10571,"date":"2017-09-13T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2017-09-13T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:31:05","slug":"10571-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10571-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>09\/13\/17<\/h3>\n<h3>From An Angry Reader:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Angry Reader Rich Laughlin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hanson, please try using sentences with less words. Most recently, I read one of your articles that had a sentence with 44 words. Other sentences in the same article were almost as bad. Really.<\/p>\n<p>You are loosing me with those lengthy paragraphs that contain so many examples of organizations, groups, etc., etc. One or two would, in most cases, satisfy the message. And, I find I have to keep a dictionary nearby while reading some of your articles.<\/p>\n<p>Less is good!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rich Laughlin<\/p>\n<p>________________________<\/p>\n<h3>Victor Davis Hanson&#8217;s Reply:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Dear Angry Reader Rich Laughlin,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should agree with your Callimachean advice: <strong>\u03bc\u03ad\u03b3\u03b1 \u03b2\u03b9\u03b2\u03bb\u03af\u03bf\u03bd \u03bc\u03ad\u03b3\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03ba\u03cc\u03bd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Victor Hanson<\/p>\n<p>(and I do not get paid by the word, so my verbiage would be unprofitable and unnecessary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09\/13\/17 From An Angry Reader: Angry Reader Rich Laughlin &nbsp; Mr. Hanson, please try using sentences with less words. Most recently, I read one of your articles that had a sentence with 44 words. Other sentences in the same article were almost as bad. Really. You are loosing me with those lengthy paragraphs that contain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Kv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11925,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-7-30-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":10571,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 7-30-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Dont worry , no silly greetings for you. Ha ha ha , reading your opinion in Albuquerque Journal made me laugh out loud. Fortunately, I rarely read such Bull Shit. Such crap is beyond belief. 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You're delirious you sick fuck\"-- Deb Chapple\u00a0\u00a0 Dear Really, Really Angry\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 70 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 70 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-angry-reader\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10677,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10677-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10571,"position":2},"title":"From An Angry Reader: You\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: You created this Frankenstein. \u00a0You have a lot to answer for. \u00a0G-d is looking down on you, and He is not smiling. \u00a0You all are in your 80s. That\u2019s the good thing in all this. Nobody lives forever and you all are a helluva lot closer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10580,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10580-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10571,"position":3},"title":"09\/14\/2017 From An Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"09\/14\/2017 From An Angry Reader: Angry Reader Wes Bridgeman Dear Mr. Hanson, My father, Lt. Col. William Bridgeman (Retired), sent me the attached links and quotes that I would like to bring to your attention. This features the words of the figures themselves (Forrest and Lincoln), and I will let\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":368,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10571,"position":4},"title":"Angry Reader #2","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers Angry Reader #2\u00a0writes: Typical crank piece by the professor, full of crap that people who don\u2019t know California (but loathe it anyway) will eat up. Fact: \u201cLiberals\u201d did not let illegal aliens flood California. The federal government did, by not policing the border. 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