{"id":787,"date":"2008-08-27T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wednesday-august-27-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:12:00","slug":"wednesday-august-27-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wednesday-august-27-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday August 27, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Book Antiqua\" size=4><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.xanga.com\/smilesbymiles\/990e8208304555\/photo.html\" target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: #002040 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #002040 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #002040 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #002040 2px solid\" alt=\"August 08 438 Large e-mail view\" src=\"http:\/\/x99.xanga.com\/0e8c675000030208304555\/m162196630.jpg\" width=580><\/a> <span style=\"WIDTH: 0px\"><\/span>The yuckiest job on my &#8220;to do&#8221; list is done.&nbsp; I am now officially a nervous wanna-be.&nbsp; The CD with my children&#8217;s manuscript is burned, I&#8217;ve corresponded with&nbsp;a publisher, and as soon as I get a padded envelope, it&#8217;s ready to be sent.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Book Antiqua\" size=4>I am also realizing that I am truly a pessimist.&nbsp; I&#8217;m making bets with myself as to how many days it will be before I get my first rejection letter.&nbsp; And thinking up suggestions for a consolation prize to my damaged ego when it happens.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photo.xanga.com\/smilesbymiles\/b2dcd208304544\/photo.html\" target=_blank><\/a>&nbsp;<span style=\"WIDTH: 0px\"><\/span><font face=\"Book Antiqua\" size=4><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yuckiest job on my &#8220;to do&#8221; list is done.&nbsp; I am now officially a nervous wanna-be.&nbsp; The CD with my children&#8217;s manuscript is burned, I&#8217;ve corresponded with&nbsp;a publisher, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39ynQ-cH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}