{"id":1255,"date":"2011-03-17T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:54","slug":"toon-thursday-writers-trading-cards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: Writer&#8217;s Trading Cards #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I present you with today&#8217;s toon, I wanted to let you know about another kidlitosphere effort to help Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami: author Greg Fishbone (whose current book is being published by the fabulous Tu Books) has set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/japanform\">donation form<\/a> for those who wish to donate a bookish item for auction. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-CoVpnMMoQG8\/TYJlLLtLJdI\/AAAAAAAAC7c\/qONnGvWRUDw\/s1600\/TradingCards-RejectionLetter.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-CoVpnMMoQG8\/TYJlLLtLJdI\/AAAAAAAAC7c\/qONnGvWRUDw\/s640\/TradingCards-RejectionLetter.jpg\" width=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nYes, that toon means what you probably think it means: more rejection letters in the aquafortis household. It&#8217;s the writer&#8217;s recurring tribulation. But hey, I try to channel my aggravation into something at least mildly productive. For more toons, be sure to check the <a href=\"http:\/\/writingya.blogspot.com\/p\/toon-thursday-archives.html\">Toon Thursday Archives<\/a> (and there are plenty more on rejection, let me tell you). <\/p>\n<p>Still, I try to remind myself why I&#8217;m doing this, and sometimes that&#8217;s easier than I think&#8211;on Tuesday, during a visit to Balboa High School in San Francisco, a student told me, &#8220;Thank you for writing this book.&#8221; She said it really spoke to her and felt real, and it&#8217;s moments like that that make everything worth it. EVERYTHING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I present you with today&#8217;s toon, I wanted to let you know about another kidlitosphere effort to help Japan in the wake of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,77],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-toon-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6457,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/6457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}