{"id":2343,"date":"2007-09-20T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:22","slug":"toon-thursday-truth-comes-ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"Toon Thursday: The Truth Comes Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/RvLWG2n6ciI\/AAAAAAAAAIg\/8QsHRWvOoUQ\/s1600-h\/Cartoon-DayInLife.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/Cartoon-DayInLife.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112383940249416226\" \/><\/a><br \/>Yes, much as I would like to have a personal assistant on hand to pour me champagne when I write my daily masterpieces, that&#8217;s not usually how it goes. However, if you DO find yourself with a few masterpieces burning a hole in your desk, there are a few contest deadlines coming up&#8211;Glimmer Train&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glimmertrain.org\">Short Story Award competition<\/a> for this fall closes on Sept. 30, and the Writer&#8217;s Digest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/contests\/popfiction\/\">Popular Fiction Awards<\/a> have a closing date of Nov. 1 (and some excellent prizes, including manuscript critiques). Go to it! I might go for Glimmer Train, though I had sworn never to enter another contest of theirs (only because I kept entering and getting discouraged). However, for the first time, I entered an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missourireview.com\/contest\/audio_competition.php\">audio contest<\/a> recently, which was interesting. We&#8217;ll see how that goes. Writers, don&#8217;t be shy&#8211;get your work out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, much as I would like to have a personal assistant on hand to pour me champagne when I write my daily masterpieces, that&#8217;s&#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":[51,77,10],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contest-alert","tag-toon-thursday","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}