{"id":1850,"date":"2014-12-19T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2024-12-19T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T04:05:29","slug":"the-audience-my-writing-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/19\/the-audience-my-writing-deserves\/","title":{"rendered":"The audience my writing deserves?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been seeing ads for a course for writers. The ad asks, &#8220;Ready to find the audience your writing deserves?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not sure I am. I&#8217;m afraid they&#8217;d turn out to be the detainees at Guantanamo, and that my writing was being read to them as punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camp PA: \u2026 that was a lovely song by Barney the Dinosaur. And next, ANOTHER story from Paul Baxter.<br>Detainees: NO! NO! STOP! WE&#8217;VE HAD ENOUGH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing ads for a course for writers. The ad asks, &#8220;Ready to find the audience your writing deserves?&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure I am. I&#8217;m afraid they&#8217;d turn out to be the detainees at Guantanamo, and that my writing was being read to them as punishment. Camp PA: \u2026 that was a lovely song &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/19\/the-audience-my-writing-deserves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The audience my writing deserves?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}