{"id":461,"date":"2007-10-11T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T22:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=461"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:25","slug":"the-reluctant-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2007\/10\/the-reluctant-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reluctant Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"reluctant_final.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/reluctant_final.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"712\" \/><br \/>\nThis is another illo for the &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column in Publisher&#8217;s Weekly.<br \/>\nAuthor Steve Weinberg laments the fact that once you are a bona fide published writer, you immediately become besieged by people looking to get their manuscripts (of varying degrees of quality) published.<br \/>\nHe writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When my telephone rings, I almost always check the caller ID before I answer. If the number and name look unfamiliar, I assume that the caller probably is (a) a prison inmate, or (b) a would-be author seeking advice about publishing a book.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another illo for the &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column in Publisher&#8217;s Weekly. Author Steve Weinberg laments the fact that once you are a bona fide published writer, you immediately become besieged by people looking to get their manuscripts (of varying degrees of quality) published. He writes: &#8220;When my telephone rings, I almost always check the caller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}