{"id":1313,"date":"2017-05-31T05:40:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T05:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2017-05-31T05:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T05:40:01","slug":"a-new-tactic-for-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/a-new-tactic-for-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Tactic for Submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking I may need to re-think my strategy for submitting good old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombatsdigit.com\/b\/\"><em>Trip to the Quiet Room<\/em><\/a> to agents and publishers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/2016\/03\/letters-to-a-literary-agent\/\">ditching the query letter altogether<\/a> and going with pictures of cats reading books.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatcutesite.com\/cats-kittens-reading-books-18-pictures\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thatcutesite.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/cats_kittens_reading_books_01.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture from That Cute Site, http:\/\/www.thatcutesite.com\/cats-kittens-reading-books-18-pictures\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking I may need to re-think my strategy for submitting good old Trip to the Quiet Room to agents and publishers. I&#8217;m thinking of ditching the query letter altogether and going with pictures of cats reading books. Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agent-hunt","category-butterfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}