{"id":243,"date":"2007-10-22T00:15:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T05:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/10\/22\/this-txtmsg-made-my-day\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T00:15:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T05:15:32","slug":"this-txtmsg-made-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/22\/this-txtmsg-made-my-day\/","title":{"rendered":"This txtmsg made my day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived today at 7:44 p.m. from a friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just saw a guy on the subway reading your\u00c2\u00a0 galley. He is 70 pages on and loving it. His name is Ian Chin. Works at Hachette.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My friend was so excited that he interrupted Ian even as he was listening to his iPod. And the galleys only came out last week from Hachette, my publisher. But it&#8217;s a good sign that my friend could recognize the orange cover\u00c2\u00a0 (with the soy sauce packet) in a crowded subway car. Other tidbits from txtmsging back and forth. Ian works in marketing. There was a meeting discussing my cover as an effective case study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived today at 7:44 p.m. from a friend. &#8220;Just saw a guy on the subway reading your\u00c2\u00a0 galley. He is 70 pages on and loving it. His name is Ian Chin. Works at Hachette.&#8221; My friend was so excited that he interrupted Ian even as he was listening to his iPod. And the galleys only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}