{"id":213,"date":"2009-03-13T10:58:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T10:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=213"},"modified":"2009-03-13T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T10:58:24","slug":"loselose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2009\/03\/loselose\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose\/Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reached either the highest or the lowest point of my career this week. <\/p>\n<p>A journalist has been wanting to write about my client <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gabrielkahane.com\/\">Gabriel Kahane<\/a> for some time now, and e mailed asking for assistance crafting a specific story about him.&nbsp; I responded with a paragraph or so about a piece I thought would fit nicely both with the publication he was pitching and with what was going on in a sliver of the industry, focused on Gabriel. The journalist wrote back and said thanks so much for your help, but unfortunately my idea was just&nbsp; &#8220;too interesting&#8221; for his editors. I like this writer very much, and in his defense he did put &#8220;too interesting&#8221; in quotes, signaling that he understood how ridiculous that response sounded.&nbsp; But&#8230;really? Is this where we are? <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s make a list: what are the best responses from journalists about why they can&#8217;t write the story you&#8217;ve pitched? I&#8217;ll start &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>1. Your pitch was too interesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached either the highest or the lowest point of my career this week. A journalist has been wanting to write about my client Gabriel Kahane for some time now, and e mailed asking for assistance crafting a specific story about him.&nbsp; I responded with a paragraph or so about a piece I thought would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}