{"id":227,"date":"2008-01-30T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2008\/01\/30\/shssh-misterioso\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T20:52:00","slug":"shssh-misterioso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2008\/01\/30\/shssh-misterioso\/","title":{"rendered":"Shssh&#8230; Misterioso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to ask if you were around tomorrow, whether I could call you and pitch an idea.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still up for a lunch if you are about, but something&#8217;s come up and I now I do have someone to pitch to in the morning. It was getting urgent because do you know what tomorrow is? It&#8217;s the end of January, horrible January. I&#8217;d forgotten this because I&#8217;ve delivered Radio Times&#8217;s On This Day feature up to February 22 so my head&#8217;s really getting toward March. Plus, for the first time in my life, I&#8217;ve booked a holiday way in advance: December. Unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, January 31. Last year I had some success with doing a pitch per day for a month so &#8211; you&#8217;re ahead of me now, aren&#8217;t you? &#8211; I figured I&#8217;d do a pitch a day for every month in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>I need to qualify that. Previously it&#8217;s been every day, really every day, Saturdays and Sundays included. This time, Pitch 2008 is every working day: it seemed to me that if I didn&#8217;t give myself weekends and bank holidays and whatever else off, I&#8217;d run out of material to pitch. So while I pitch every working day, I also write for at least one hour every single day.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s the end of January, I&#8217;ve hit both targets.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s working. The pitching is for all sorts of things, all the different types of work I do, and I&#8217;ve got extra Radio Times feature out of it already.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a pitch per day. Any chance you&#8217;re around on Friday?<\/p>\n<p>William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to ask if you were around tomorrow, whether I could call you and pitch an idea. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2008\/01\/30\/shssh-misterioso\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-3F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}