{"id":290,"date":"2014-04-19T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2016-12-21T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T18:49:19","slug":"the-writers-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/the-writers-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The writer&#8217;s prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O Editor, who art in New York,<\/p>\n<p>Hallowed be thy brain<\/p>\n<p>Thy red pen comes, thine will be done<\/p>\n<p>In ARCs as it is in\u00c2\u00a0page proofs<\/p>\n<p>Give us this day our editorial letter<\/p>\n<p>And forgive us our plot holes<\/p>\n<p>As we forgive those who review against us<\/p>\n<p>Lead us not into the temptation to quote ourselves on Twitter or say we have news we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t share<\/p>\n<p>But deliver us from Kirkus<\/p>\n<p>For thine are the eyes that have seen our crappy drafts and not told a soul, forever and ever, Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Note: Writers should feel free to swap out verses that best fit their circumstances. I.e. change New York to wherever your editor is; swap &#8216;plot holes&#8217; for &#8216;typos&#8217; if you write non-fiction; insert online author behavior that drives you crazy into the temptations, etc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Editor, who art in New York, Hallowed be thy brain Thy red pen comes, thine will be done In ARCs as it is in\u00c2\u00a0page proofs Give us this day our editorial letter And forgive us our plot holes As we forgive those who review against us Lead us not into the temptation to quote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}