{"id":4468,"date":"2013-03-25T07:54:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2013-03-25T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:33:10","slug":"number-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2013\/03\/number-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Number Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last summer, I wrote about finding a file on an old hard drive <\/a>where I listed stuff I want to do and things I’d like to do. The eighth item on the list (excluding items I crossed out) was “Have a letter published in a magazine or newspaper.” And here’s what I said about it in that blog post:<\/p>\n

I sent a letter to The Monticello Times<\/em>, and a reporter called back and asked to interview me<\/a>. Plus, I\u2019ve had entire articles published in newsletters, magazines, and books, so even though I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve accomplished this task per se, I\u2019ve kind of trumped it.<\/p>\n

Well, now I have <\/em>accomplished it. When I was paging through the February 20th issue of The Villager<\/em>, I happened upon this letter…<\/p>\n

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I wrote a response letter a few days later. It didn’t appear in the next issue (06 March), so I figured they just weren’t going to publish my letter. That’s okay…it’s happened before. In fact, about four years ago, I wrote a letter to the Pioneer Press<\/em> and one of their staff members even called me a few days later asking about shortening my letter in a certain spot, and I said that was fine. Alas, they didn’t publish it.<\/p>\n

But then the March 20th issue arrived on our doorstep (in fact, three copies arrived…not sure if that was just a weird paperboy mistake, or if it was intentional). And, when I got to page 11, here’s what I found…<\/p>\n

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Continued on the next column…<\/p>\n

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Last summer, I wrote about finding a file on an old hard drive where I listed stuff I want to do and things I’d like to do. The eighth item on the list (excluding items I crossed out) was “Have a letter published in a magazine or newspaper.” And here’s what I said about it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}