{"id":21119,"date":"2016-06-29T00:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/I-aim-for-submissions-which-I-can-control-not-rejections-or-acceptances-which-I-cant-directly-control"},"modified":"2016-06-29T00:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:36:25","slug":"i-aim-for-submissions-which-i-can-control-not-rejections-or-acceptances-which-i-cant-directly-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/06\/29\/i-aim-for-submissions-which-i-can-control-not-rejections-or-acceptances-which-i-cant-directly-control\/","title":{"rendered":"I aim for submissions, which I can control, not rejections or acceptances, which I can&#8217;t (directly) control."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I aim for submissions, which I can control, not rejections or acceptances, which I can&#8217;t (directly) control. But the principle is sound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(My figures so far this year: 41 submissions, 2 acceptances, 21 form rejections, 8 personalised rejections. Since the beginning of 2014: 137 submissions, 11 acceptances, 105 rejections.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perseverance is the key.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/why-you-should-aim-for-100-rejections-a-year\/\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/lithub.com\/why-you-should-aim-for-100-rejections-a-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I aim for submissions, which I can control, not rejections or acceptances, which I can&#8217;t (directly) control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-21119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}