{"id":10354,"date":"2005-01-13T12:56:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10354"},"modified":"2005-01-13T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T12:56:49","slug":"coincidence-or-fate?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/13\/coincidence-or-fate?\/","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence or Fate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences are not always the business of chance, for sometimes fate plays a heavy role.   Take my lack of an agent dilemma.   Friday marks eight weeks since submitting the manuscript with no answer in sight, despite a nudge.  The absence of a reply is a reply.   A passive reply, in my opinion, but a reply nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>So before I go cry me a river, I check my mailbox.  A letter sent months ago suddenly appeared.  A request from an agent for the first 50 pages and a synopsis.<\/p>\n<p>How you like them coincidences, eh? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidences are not always the business of chance, for sometimes fate plays a heavy role. Take my lack of an agent dilemma. Friday marks eight weeks since submitting the manuscript with no answer in sight, despite a nudge. The absence of a reply is a reply. A passive reply, in my opinion, but a reply [&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-10354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354","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=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}