{"id":11991,"date":"2010-02-24T21:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2010-02-24T21:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:45:03","slug":"678-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/24\/678-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"678 entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far 678 readers entered the publisher sponsored contest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/7686634-the-last-track?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=author_widget\">GoodReads.com<\/a> for a chance at one of five free copies of The Last Track. Still four days left in the giveaway. Quite a bit better turnout than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Much thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/gentlewit.com\/\">Cyndy<\/a> for the suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the writer has two jobs. First, get out of the way of the story and let the characters do theirs. Second, and more importantly, listen to what readers have to say about the story, because well, they tend to have a lot of great ideas.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, readers actually pay for books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far 678 readers entered the publisher sponsored contest on GoodReads.com for a chance at one of five free copies of The Last Track. Still four days left in the giveaway. Quite a bit better turnout than I expected. Much thanks to Cyndy for the suggestion. I believe the writer has two jobs. First, get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991","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=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}