{"id":576,"date":"2006-09-08T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T22:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2007-09-01T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-02T04:28:09","slug":"rejection-despondency-misery-rebirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/rejection-despondency-misery-rebirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection #187"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I get a little item in the mail yesterday. It&#8217;s from the Austin Film Festival. Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/31\/austin-film-fest\/\">this<\/a>? I sent them ELEMENT because I could really use the prize money and it&#8217;s the world&#8217;s greatest unproduced script. I won&#8217;t provide you with the entire text of the letter, just the part that counts:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0906\/rejection.jpg\" alt=\"Rejection!\" title=\"Rejection!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To summarize, &#8220;blah, blah, blah, blah, REJECTION! blah, blah, blah, buck up li&#8217;l Cowpoke, blah, blah, blah&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But as my neighbor says, &#8220;At the end of a string of rejections is a YES. You just have to wait for it to arrive.&#8221; My neighbor also doesn&#8217;t allow whistling in her apartment because it upsets the spirits there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I get a little item in the mail yesterday. It&#8217;s from the Austin Film Festival. Remember this? I sent them ELEMENT because I could really use the prize money and it&#8217;s the world&#8217;s greatest unproduced script. I won&#8217;t provide you with the entire text of the letter, just the part that counts: To summarize, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25,45],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}