{"id":410,"date":"2012-04-02T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-04-02T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:04:05","slug":"410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2012\/04\/02\/410\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t posted anything for a while. Busy. But I thought I&#8217;d at least throw up a link to my old friend Allen Downey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/allendowney.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/passive-voice-is-hoax.html\">post <\/a>in which he offers a bounty for anyone who can find a scientific journal whose style guide explicitly requires or recommends the passive voice.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2011\/10\/19\/the-passive-voice-can-be-used\/\">mentioned once<\/a>, I think that the blanket advice to avoid the passive voice is often overstated. But the idea that you&#8217;re always supposed to use the passive in scientific writing is incredibly silly. If the active voice is better at clearly and concisely indicating who did what to whom (as it often is), use the active voice. If a journal editor tells you you can&#8217;t, well, at least you can collect $100 from Allen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t posted anything for a while. Busy. But I thought I&#8217;d at least throw up a link to my old friend Allen Downey&#8217;s post in which he offers a bounty for anyone who can find a scientific journal whose style guide explicitly requires or recommends the passive voice. As I mentioned once, I think that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2012\/04\/02\/410\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}