{"id":756,"date":"2008-08-26T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=756"},"modified":"2008-08-26T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T07:12:39","slug":"chekhovs-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2008\/08\/26\/chekhovs-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Chekhov&#8217;s Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nIf in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don&#8217;t put it there<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chekhov%27s_gun\">Anton Chekhov<\/a>, from Gurlyand&#8217;s &#8220;Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov&#8221;, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No. 28, 11 July, p. 521<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don&#8217;t put it there Anton Chekhov, from Gurlyand&#8217;s &#8220;Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov&#8221;, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No. 28, 11 July, p. 521<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-cc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}