{"id":7395,"date":"2013-05-11T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:18","slug":"rejection-notes-5-david-foster-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/rejection-notes-5-david-foster-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection Notes #5: David Foster Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>from the H<\/i><i>arry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<h5><i>27 November 1994<\/i><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Are you kidding me with this thing, Dave? It\u2019s larger than my goddamn phone book. I had the marketing team take a look at it and they thought maybe we could sell it as a stepladder. Cut a few hundred thousand words and then we can talk. Until then I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s a pass.<\/h5>\n<h5>Yours,<\/h5>\n<h5>Bob Wetzel, Editor<\/h5>\n<h5>(Note: I didn\u2019t get a chance to read past the first few pages. I\u2019m sure the writing is dynamite.)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late great author gets some friendly advice regarding the page count of his latest work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","writer-ravi-mangla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17583,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7395\/revisions\/17583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}