{"id":10350,"date":"2005-01-08T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T10:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10350"},"modified":"2005-01-08T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T10:37:19","slug":"eck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/08\/eck\/","title":{"rendered":"Eck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A winter cold rode me down for the count.  I hope to return in better spirits Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I sent an email to the prospective agent.  Eight weeks is a reasonable amount of time for a reply, considering a self addressed stamped envelope was enclosed.  Without speculating on an outcome \u2013 since anything is possible &#8211; I&#8217;ve learned one important lesson about agents.  The time between initial contact and a response often reflects their interest level.  The less time passes, the more encouraging the results.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing the spreadsheet of agents contacted is also revealing.  After a year, 45 percent of agents queried have yet to respond.  So are they a no or a yes?  Good question.   It&#8217;s a hard call to make.  Fourth months ago, I double tapped a subset of those who hadn&#8217;t responded after six months, and one replied.  Maybe a triple tap is in order. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winter cold rode me down for the count. I hope to return in better spirits Monday. Friday I sent an email to the prospective agent. Eight weeks is a reasonable amount of time for a reply, considering a self addressed stamped envelope was enclosed. Without speculating on an outcome \u2013 since anything is possible [&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-10350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350","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=10350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}