{"id":2056,"date":"2008-10-09T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2008-10-09T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:08:17","slug":"rejecting-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Rejecting Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the centenary of the birth of novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/fiction\/article4224627.ece\">John Creasey, who received &#8220;743 rejections slips along the way<\/a> &#8211; before his first crime thriller was accepted in 1932,&#8221; writes Margaret Murphey.  &#8220;Creasey wrote 620 novels under more than 20 pseudonyms, selling 80 million books worldwide and writing across many genres, but he is best known for his crime fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many of those rejections were styled as &#8220;Um, we don&#8217;t publish this sort of thing.  Did you even read our publication before submitting?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the centenary of the birth of novelist John Creasey, who received &#8220;743 rejections slips along the way &#8211; before his first crime thriller was accepted in 1932,&#8221; writes Margaret Murphey. &#8220;Creasey wrote 620 novels under more than 20 pseudonyms, selling 80 million books worldwide and writing across many genres, but he is best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2056\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rejecting Rejection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}