{"id":4851,"date":"2010-09-23T05:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2010-09-23T06:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:22:06","slug":"my-interview-at-techgoss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/my-interview-at-techgoss.html","title":{"rendered":"My Interview at Techgoss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Techgoss, a tech news portal, has a rather long interview of me. It is so long and comprehensive, I should copy most of it and use it for my &#8216;about&#8217; page!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>TG:<\/strong> For someone coming from a tech background, to  delve into writing, how was the acceptance by editors of various  magazines? How did you face rejections (if any) and how did you grapple  with that?<br \/>\n<strong>AB:<\/strong> No one ever asked me about my background; I guess it  doesn&#8217;t matter much as long as you can weave a good story. The hard part  was always to get an editor to listen to you and have them read your  story. The next step is not so much hard as the first step; so  rejections did happen but [were]\u00a0few and far apart. As far as I know, few  travel writers really face rejections. If you have managed to get an  editor to say &#8216;send me the story,&#8217; it is like a battle nearly won.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techgoss.com\/Story\/196S13-From-8-years-of-Tech-to-Travel.aspx\">Techgoss website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techgoss, a tech news portal, has a rather long interview of me. It is so long and comprehensive, I should copy most of it and use it for my &#8216;about&#8217; page! TG: For someone coming from a tech background, to delve into writing, how was the acceptance by editors of various magazines? How did you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-1gf","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}