{"id":2985,"date":"2011-05-29T22:19:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T02:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2011-05-29T22:19:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T02:19:22","slug":"rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-2-amazing-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/29\/rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-2-amazing-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection slips of dead magazines #2: Amazing (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 30, 1971, I sent an early, clumsy, typo-riddled, poorly written short story (there should probably be further negative adjectives, but those are all I have energy for tonight)  to editor Ted White  at <em>Amazing Science Fiction<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I received this rejection slip back. Even that was more than it deserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AmazingReject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AmazingReject-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"AmazingReject\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AmazingReject-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AmazingReject-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/AmazingReject.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 30, 1971, I sent an early, clumsy, typo-riddled, poorly written short story (there should probably be further negative adjectives, but those are all I have energy for tonight) to editor Ted White at Amazing Science Fiction. I received this rejection slip back. Even that was more than it deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,87,56],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing","tag-rejection-slips","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}