{"id":168,"date":"2010-06-10T06:59:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2010-06-10T06:59:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:59:45","slug":"query-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/query-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Query chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after my eyes fell out from researching The Perfect Query Letter, I came up with what I thought was my PQL and I wrote it down. It had all the ingredients of a PQL &#8211; the hook, the meat, the bio.<\/p>\n<p>Then I passed it by some folks who, after reading their feedback on others&#8217; queries, seemed to know what they were talking about. They ripped my PQL to pieces. Called it boring! And&#8230;I agreed. All those query letter samples I&#8217;d read left me wondering, &#8220;how did this get the attention of anyone?&#8221; and I tried to follow their example which led me to boringville. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m now starting from scratch. Apparently I&#8217;ve got some pretty good text on my website to work with, at least as a guide. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after my eyes fell out from researching The Perfect Query Letter, I came up with what I thought was my PQL and I wrote it down. It had all the ingredients of a PQL &#8211; the hook, the meat, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/query-chaos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}