{"id":1107,"date":"2011-11-29T23:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:05:56","slug":"other-peoples-rejection-letters-edited-by-bill-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Other People&#8217;s Rejection Letters, edited by Bill Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1112 size-medium\" title=\"Other People's Rejection Letters\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Other-Peoples-Rejection-Letters-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Other-Peoples-Rejection-Letters-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Other-Peoples-Rejection-Letters.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rejection letters are never fun . . . unless they are written to someone else!\u00a0 This rejection collection includes letters by and to famous and not-so-famous people, ranging from the amusing to the disturbing.\u00a0 While many names have been redacted to protect the innocent, the Postscript section at the end of the book sheds light on some of the recipients, including background on the letters and how the\u00a0people moved on after the rejection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejection letters are never fun . . . unless they are written to someone else!\u00a0 This rejection collection includes letters by and to famous and not-so-famous people, ranging from the amusing to the disturbing.\u00a0 While many names have been redacted to protect the innocent, the Postscript section at the end of the book sheds light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Other People&#8217;s Rejection Letters, edited by Bill Shapiro<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-karrie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}