{"id":14643,"date":"2013-09-03T10:50:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/09\/03\/14643.html"},"modified":"2013-09-03T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:50:20","slug":"nice-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2013\/09\/03\/nice-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twice during the course of WorldCon weekend, writers came up to me and thanked me for a personalized rejection I wrote them a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>That tends to happen maybe once or twice at any given convention; it's always really nice to hear. One of the unexpected perks of being (or having been) an editor. It can be a little embarrassing, because I often don't remember the writer or their story offhand (reading a thousand subs a year will do that), so I often get a little flustered and forget to do things like ask how their writing is going. But I'm always really pleased when it happens, even if I don't do a good job of making that clear.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice during the course of WorldCon weekend, writers came up to me and thanked me for a personalized rejection I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-strange-horizons","category-writers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}