{"id":2782,"date":"2004-08-24T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2004-08-24T10:19:15","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T17:19:15","slug":"tricks-of-the-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/24\/tricks-of-the-trade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricks Of The Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href='http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/how_to\/tricks_of_the_trade.php'>Tricks Of The Trade<\/a> article is now running at <em>The Morning News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A huge &#8220;thank you&#8221; to the hundreds (!!) of people who responded to <a href='http:\/\/www.defectiveyeti.com\/archives\/000952.html'>my call<\/a> for occupational secrets.  Narrowing it down to 30 was tough, and I hope to post <em>all<\/em> the suggestions here in the near future.  Again, sorry about the lack of names in the piece &#8212; since 75% of the ones I chose were submitted as &#8220;Anonymous&#8221; we decided to run them all unsigned.  I also shortened some, and, since they were all submitted in different tenses (past, present, subjunctive) and persons (first-, second- and third-person), I reworded most for uniformity of voice &#8212; I hope no one is irritated by my heavy editorial hand.  (Is it obvious how guilty I feel for altering your submissions?)<\/p>\n<p>By the by, someone started a <a href='http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/35161'>Metafilter thread<\/a> on this topic, and more great tricks are being posted over there.<\/p>\n<p>Again, thanks to everyone who wrote in.  I have the best readers ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tricks Of The Trade article is now running at The Morning News. A huge &#8220;thank you&#8221; to the hundreds (!!) of people who responded to my call for occupational secrets. Narrowing it down to 30 was tough, and I hope to post all the suggestions here in the near future. Again, sorry about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","category-tricks-of-the-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}