{"id":758,"date":"2010-07-14T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/07\/14\/i-continue-to-be-a-professional-writer\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T06:08:00","slug":"i-continue-to-be-a-professional-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/07\/14\/i-continue-to-be-a-professional-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"I Continue to be a Professional Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TD6xvWpBNwI\/AAAAAAABCBI\/U6MnWsPZEug\/s1600\/silverboomerpaid.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TD6xvWpBNwI\/AAAAAAABCBI\/U6MnWsPZEug\/s320\/silverboomerpaid.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Received in the mail today:  my contributor&#8217;s copy, payment, and publishing contract for &#8220;At Long Last, Love,&#8221; a short story in the anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/silverboomerbooks.com\/books.html#porch\"><i>From the Porch Swing: memories of our grandparents<\/i><\/a>.  (If you look closely, you can see that I was paid the princely sum of <b>ten whole dollars.<\/b>)<\/p>\n<p>One day, I hope to be prolific and successful enough as a writer that a small thing like this will merit no special celebration.  But for now, it&#8217;s still a novelty.  So there you go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silverboomerbooks.com\/buy.html#porch\">Buy the book!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received in the mail today: my contributor&#8217;s copy, payment, and publishing contract for &#8220;At Long Last, Love,&#8221; a short story in the anthology From the Porch Swing: memories of our grandparents. (If you look closely, you can see that I&#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":[51,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-publishing","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}