{"id":175,"date":"2010-06-16T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.wordpress.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-06-16T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:34:43","slug":"could-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/could-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Could it be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could I finally have a query letter an agent will like? I sure hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing &#8211; I&#8217;ve now read hundreds of messages and letters and blogs all describing how to write a query letter, and no one agrees about a damned thing except &#8220;make it perfect!&#8221; Well, yeah, obviously one would want to send in a query as free of sloppiness as possible, but that&#8217;s only the tip of the ice berg.<\/p>\n<p>But after this minor point, it seems advice varies. The big problem is that almost all the suggestions actually make a lot of sense. Some agents even specify the type of letter they are looking for, so no boiler plates.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ll soon be getting some feedback on my query, and if it passes the sniff test then I&#8217;m ready to commit.<\/p>\n<p>Progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could I finally have a query letter an agent will like? I sure hope so. Funny thing &#8211; I&#8217;ve now read hundreds of messages and letters and blogs all describing how to write a query letter, and no one agrees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/could-it-be\/\">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-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}