{"id":811,"date":"2006-11-09T15:36:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2006-11-09T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:36:28","slug":"rejection-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/11\/rejection-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very very proud of my book. I published it this year, and it took a lot of hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I was listening to an interview of Janet Fitch, author of <em>White Oleander<\/em>. She talked about the party she had after her book was published.<\/p>\n<p>She wallpapered the room with her rejection letters.<\/p>\n<p>I should accumulate rejection letters, I suppose. I feel slightly averse to it. I mean, they are rejection letters, after all.<\/p>\n<p>But, it also seems the path many successful people take.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very very proud of my book. I published it this year, and it took a lot of hard work. Recently I was listening to an interview of Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander. She talked about the party &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/11\/rejection-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/11\/rejection-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}