{"id":600,"date":"2018-07-09T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T23:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=600"},"modified":"2018-07-09T19:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T23:20:22","slug":"out-in-the-world-or-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Out in the World (Or: The Baby)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>First draft.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For five years I have worked,<br \/>\nSlaved, bled, and cried;<br \/>\nNow, I send my baby,<br \/>\nOut into the world.<\/p>\n<p>The world will see what beautiful prose<br \/>\nI have wrought. And Spielburg himself will call<br \/>\nTo direct the motion picture,<br \/>\nAnd Brad Pitt will be the leading man.<\/p>\n<p>I have visions of best selling books.<br \/>\nI am number one on Amazon.<br \/>\nEverywhere.<br \/>\nI need to pick out a dress for the interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Until\u2026<br \/>\nI get my first one-star review.<\/p>\n<p>The world has rejected<br \/>\nMy baby, my most precious one,<br \/>\nThat I paid to edit, and design, and lay out,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Shelling out half my paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>No, this cannot be true!<br \/>\nIt must be some mistake,<br \/>\nAs I tell the reviewer.<br \/>\nAnd then I start a war.<\/p>\n<p>My name is dragged through the mud<br \/>\nOf Twitter, and Facebook,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>And so much social media<br \/>\nI am a failure.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe, only this book<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Was not what I had dreamed.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s time to practice<br \/>\nHaving another baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First draft. &nbsp; For five years I have worked, Slaved, bled, and cried; Now, I send my baby, Out into the world. The world will see what beautiful prose I have wrought. And Spielburg himself will call To direct the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=600\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}