{"id":336,"date":"2026-01-13T07:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/matt-shorter-speech\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T07:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T07:47:53","slug":"matt-shorter-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/matt-shorter-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Shorter Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great WordPress blogs is <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/\">Quote Investigator.<\/a> In their investigation into the original source of <a href=\"https:\/\/quoteinvestigator.com\/2012\/04\/28\/shorter-letter\/\">\u201cIf I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter,\u201d<\/a> I came across this great variation from Woodrow Wilson on the amount of time he spent preparing speeches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThat depends on the length of the speech,\u201d answered the President. \u201cIf it is a ten-minute speech it takes me all of two weeks to prepare it; if it is a half-hour speech it takes me a week; if I can talk as long as I want to it requires no preparation at all. I am ready now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So true.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great WordPress blogs is Quote Investigator. In their investigation into the original source of \u201cIf I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter,\u201d I came across this great variation from Woodrow Wilson on the amount of time he spent preparing speeches. \u201cThat depends on the length of the speech,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}