{"id":10067,"date":"2004-02-05T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10067"},"modified":"2004-02-05T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T13:54:21","slug":"if-this-is-your-first-night-at-fight-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/05\/if-this-is-your-first-night-at-fight-club\/","title":{"rendered":"If this is your first night at fight club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a few dozen panic attacks, the query letter to a prospective agent is now in the mail.  Walking back from the post office, I had another panic attack and talked myself down ( in my head of course.  They were too many old people about to talk to myself ).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s three good things about where I am right now:<br \/>\n1)Even if the prospective agent rejects my query, I&#8217;m still ahead, because I&#8217;m one step closer to the answer I&#8217;m looking for.<br \/>\n2)I queried once.  I&#8217;ll query again, if necessary.<br \/>\n3)Every writer has done something like this to get published.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the advice I got from editor person &#8211; go blog.  So here I am blogging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few dozen panic attacks, the query letter to a prospective agent is now in the mail. Walking back from the post office, I had another panic attack and talked myself down ( in my head of course. They were too many old people about to talk to myself ). Here&#8217;s three good things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}