{"id":1224,"date":"2008-03-30T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/03\/30\/no-west-young-man\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:07:00","slug":"no-west-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/03\/30\/no-west-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"No West, Young Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I heard back from <a href=\"http:\/\/clarionwest.org\/\">Clarion West<\/a>.  Two months ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/2008\/01\/applying-myself.html\">applied<\/a> to the 2008 writing program in Seattle, and tonight I got their answer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are sorry to let you know that you were not selected for this year&#8217;s class. We had a record number of applicants, and because the workshop can hold only eighteen students we could not find room for all of the promising writers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that&#8217;s a signal.  Not what I was hoping for, but hey, if I want to be a writer, I&#8217;d better get used to rejection, right?  And plenty of it!<\/p>\n<p>Still waiting to hear from <a href=\"http:\/\/clarion.ucsd.edu\/\">Clarion<\/a> (the original, in San Diego).  Not looking good for our hero&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I heard back from Clarion West. Two months ago, I applied to the 2008 writing program in Seattle, and tonight I got their answer: We are sorry to let you know that you were not selected for this year&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}