{"id":1036,"date":"2010-03-27T20:07:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T07:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2010-03-27T20:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T07:07:36","slug":"mametian-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/mametian-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mametian Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Unit\" target=\"_blank\">The Unit<\/a> creator <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Mamet\" target=\"_blank\">David Mamet<\/a> apparently wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movieline.com\/2010\/03\/david-mamets-memo-to-the-writers-of-the-unit.php\" target=\"_blank\">memo<\/a> to the writers of the show of things to keep in mind, including things like:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px;\">THE JOB OF THE DRAMATIST IS TO MAKE THE AUDIENCE WONDER WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. NOT TO EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT JUST HAPPENED, OR TO*SUGGEST* TO THEM WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.<\/div>\n<p>Nothing a self-respecting screenwriter won&#8217;t already know but nonetheless a recommended and refreshing Mametian reminder.<\/p>\n<p>(Fedora-tip:  <a href=\"http:\/\/writersguild.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/david-mamets-advice-to-writers.html\" target=\"_blank\">WGGB Blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Unit creator David Mamet apparently wrote a memo to the writers of the show of things to keep in mind, including things like: THE JOB OF THE DRAMATIST IS TO MAKE THE AUDIENCE WONDER WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. NOT TO EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT JUST HAPPENED, OR TO*SUGGEST* TO THEM WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. Nothing a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/mametian-memo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Mametian Memo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[144,145],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-david-mamet","tag-the-unit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}