{"id":2306,"date":"2009-09-27T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2009-09-27T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T01:50:00","slug":"2306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=2306","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm&#8230;I entered the contest and never looked at the prizes. I never do it for the prize.<br \/>But it turns out, the winners get scholarships to Writer&#8217;s Boot Camp. Apparently they are one of the sponsors.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3amwanderer.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/last-thursday-i-took-michael-to.html\"><br \/>I met one of the founders years ago<\/a>. If I do well in this contest, it will symbolically be like getting delivered right back to him. I never did sign up for a class. I secretly can&#8217;t stand being around groups of writers unless in very specific situations with great chemistry. And I don&#8217;t remember what it was, but something about that organization felt a little cultish.<\/p>\n<p>This makes for an interesting twist. I&#8217;m faced with the question of, if I have a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think so. I&#8217;m just going to focus on doing the best I can in the writing. Figure out things that come when they come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm&#8230;I entered the contest and never looked at the prizes. I never do it for the prize.But it turns out, the winners get scholarships to Writer&#8217;s Boot Camp. Apparently they are one of the sponsors.I met one of the founders years ago. If I do well in this contest, it will symbolically be like getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-2306","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}