{"id":409,"date":"2009-04-09T13:52:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/the_first_thing_ill_buy_myself\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T13:52:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T20:52:49","slug":"the_first_thing_ill_buy_myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/the_first_thing_ill_buy_myself.html","title":{"rendered":"The first thing I&#8217;ll buy myself is an editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I make a go of the freelance writing biz, hiring an editor will be at the top of my to-do list. I have him picked out already: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattleobserved.blogspot.com\/\">Mark Matassa<\/a>. I forget his exact title, but until he left several years ago to take a very early semi-retirement, he was a big deal at the Seattle PI. I gather he now plays a lot of poker.<\/p>\n<p>While we were still working at the same paper, I could never figure out a way to score his editorial attention, but I&#8217;ve seen the dried pig&#8217;s ears he transformed into a living animal. He&#8217;s good at the nitpick, but he&#8217;s great at tone, rhythm, word choice, fairness, flow and logic.<\/p>\n<p>Till that happy day when he is in my employ, I count on the audience<br \/>\nfor after-the-fact editing and pay it in gratitude. This is a shout out to my most<br \/>\nloyal online editors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/man\/\">Tyler Green<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryart.org\/\">Betsey Brock<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernbridge.org\/\">Eric Fredericksen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/\">Doug McLennan<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/directory\/bios\/tim_appelo\">Tim Appelo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I make a go of the freelance writing biz, hiring an editor will be at the top of my to-do list. I have him picked out already: Mark Matassa. I forget his exact title, but until he left several years ago to take a very early semi-retirement, he was a big deal at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}