{"id":3098,"date":"2006-01-30T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:16","slug":"have-you-ever-considered-career-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"Have You Ever Considered a Career in Writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I opened my e-mail box today to find yet another coincidental connection between the various odd things I do in my life (and, of course, coincidences are the stuff of interesting writing ideas&#8230;sometimes, anyway). <\/p>\n<p>Back in November, did you ever find yourself curious about the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">National Novel Writing Month<\/a>? Who would do such a thing? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I had loved the anthro major as an undergrad, but by 1999 I was beginning to wish my parents had browbeaten me into becoming an accountant. Or a trapeze artist. Or something more practical. Instead, I had become The Creepy Guy Who Graduated Four Years Ago Who Sits Alone in Caffe Strada All Day Reading. Somewhere in that haze of aimlessness and espresso, a very dumb idea was born.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.berkeley.edu\/calmag\/200601\/berkeleymoment.asp\">great article<\/a> by the amazing individual who managed to turn sitting in Caffe Strada all day into a world-famous endeavor. As for me&#8230;I wish I&#8217;d had an idea like that four years out of Cal. I&#8217;m almost five years overdue. I guess I just left the cafe too early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I opened my e-mail box today to find yet another coincidental connection between the various odd things I do in my life (and, 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":[2,10],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","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=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3438,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}