{"id":797,"date":"2013-03-19T06:52:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T10:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=797"},"modified":"2013-03-19T06:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T10:52:23","slug":"publishing-is-hard-but-this-is-harsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Is Hard, But This Is Harsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every literary rejection carries in its DNA dual code which says: this is a meaningless gesture, and you are wasting your life. It is up to the poor recipient to navigated this helixed signal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereviewreview.net\/publishing-tips\/new-yorker-rejects-itself-quasi-scientific-a\">This experiment conducted by David Cameron<\/a> for The Review Review\u2014submitting New Yorker short stories to other journals (including the New Yorker) and being rejected every time (including by the New Yorker)\u2014proves both of these to be simultaneously true. As he opines with proof:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Slush sucks. It\u2019s as simple, and as unhelpful, as that. Keep in mind that they do in fact call it the slush pile, not the \u201cjewel in the rough pile,\u201d or the \u201cwe can\u2019t wait to see what serendipity brought us today!\u201d pile, but the slush pile, named after the very same stuff that mucks your driveway up after a dank snowfall. It some cases it would be more accurate to call it the \u201cgotta snake my drain\u201d pile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every literary rejection carries in its DNA dual code which says: this is a meaningless gesture, and you are wasting your life. It is up to the poor recipient to navigated this helixed signal. This experiment conducted by David Cameron for The Review Review\u2014submitting New Yorker short stories to other journals (including the New Yorker) and being rejected every time &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}