{"id":7772,"date":"2013-06-20T11:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:17","slug":"rejection-notes-6-frederick-exley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/rejection-notes-6-frederick-exley\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection Notes #6: Frederick Exley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>from the University of Rochester Rare Books and Special Collections Library:<\/i><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><i>March 4<sup>th<\/sup> 1963 and June 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 1963<\/i><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Hello Mr. Exley,<\/h5>\n<h5>Thank you for submitting to our humor section. In the end, we didn\u2019t feel this joke was a good fit for our periodical. Our readers prefer somewhat lighter fare. Many of them read the magazine in waiting rooms or offices, and they want jokes that uplift them, leave them with a warm feeling afterward. To give you an example, here\u2019s a joke from our most recent issue:<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><i>Q: Why is corn the best vegetable to tell a joke to? <\/i><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><i>A: Because they\u2019re all ears!<\/i><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>You see what I mean? That\u2019s a good example of the type of joke we\u2019re looking for. For your submission to meet our standards, you would need to change the punch line. Maybe instead of the character hanging himself at the end he could slip on a banana peel. Wouldn\u2019t that be funnier?<\/h5>\n<h5>Sincerely,<\/h5>\n<h5>Craig Thompson<\/h5>\n<h5>Reader\u2019s Digest<\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Hello Mr. Exley,<\/h5>\n<h5>While I appreciate that the character remains alive for the duration of the joke, I still feel\u2014tone-wise\u2014we\u2019re quite far apart. Forgive me but I just don\u2019t see the humor in someone becoming intoxicated and falling asleep in a puddle of their own vomit and urine. I\u2019m grateful for your continued interest in our periodical, but I think you might be misguided in your pursuit of publication. Perhaps it would benefit you to share this \u201cjoke\u201d with a qualified counselor or support group.<\/h5>\n<h5>Be well,<\/h5>\n<h5>Craig Thompson<\/h5>\n<h5>Reader\u2019s Digest<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of <em>A Fan&#8217;s Notes<\/em> learns he might not be as funny as he thinks he is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7772","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\/7772","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=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17570,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions\/17570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}