{"id":3027,"date":"2011-06-03T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2011-06-03T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T12:09:09","slug":"rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-4-mystery-monthly-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/03\/rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-4-mystery-monthly-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection slips of dead magazines #4: Mystery Monthly (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mystery Monthly<\/em> was a topnotch digest that published the likes of Ed McBain, Ron Goulart, and Harlan Ellison. But not me.<\/p>\n<p>The first issue came out in 1976, and the last (or so I believe) in 1977, long before I figured out how to create a short story that would  get an editor&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Or get me anything more than an impersonal rejection slip such as this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MysteryMonthlyReject.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MysteryMonthlyReject-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"MysteryMonthlyReject\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MysteryMonthlyReject-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MysteryMonthlyReject-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MysteryMonthlyReject.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mystery Monthly was a topnotch digest that published the likes of Ed McBain, Ron Goulart, and Harlan Ellison. But not me. The first issue came out in 1976, and the last (or so I believe) in 1977, long before I figured out how to create a short story that would get an editor&#8217;s attention. Or [&hellip;]<\/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":[29,13,87],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing","tag-old-magazines","tag-rejection-slips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","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=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}