{"id":10079,"date":"2004-02-17T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T09:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10079"},"modified":"2004-02-17T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T09:53:20","slug":"waiting-for-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/17\/waiting-for-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been staring at the clock over my PC for the last five minutes wondering what to blog about, then I decided to start blogging and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going back to my short list of agents and organize the list and add another name or names to it for contact at a later date.  I&#8217;ve read that two weeks for a response from a prospective agent is the norm procedure.  This Thursday will be two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>However, since I queried in the middle of the week, the agent&#8217;s office is in NYC and there was a holiday, I&#8217;m allowing two more business days before trying another agent, pushing it to Tuesday of next week. It&#8217;s ill advised to call an agent unless you&#8217;re a client, so I have no way of knowing if they got my query letter in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Now mind you, I understand why agents do this, particularly if you&#8217;re reading my blog, prospective agent.  If you have 100 query letters to read a week and perhaps only 5 pique your interest enough to ask for more, I doubt I would be anxious to read them either.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway \u2013 I&#8217;ll be funny tomorrow again.  Right now I need more coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been staring at the clock over my PC for the last five minutes wondering what to blog about, then I decided to start blogging and see what happens. I&#8217;m going back to my short list of agents and organize the list and add another name or names to it for contact at a later [&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-10079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079","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=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}