{"id":9683,"date":"2014-10-31T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=9683"},"modified":"2014-11-01T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:31:42","slug":"open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/31\/open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Open House from Cartoon Stock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/cartoonview.asp?catref=mban291\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/lowres.cartoonstock.com\/property-real_estate-selling-conditional_offer-housing-hidden_expences-mban291_low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a>What the hell, I&#8217;m going to try it again. I&#8217;m throwing the gates open for guest posts. Why? Honestly, my head&#8217;s not in the blogging space right now and I could use some help maintaining the heartbeat of my blog until I&#8217;m back at the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Guidelines? Be afraid, be very afraid.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Essays ONLY<\/strong>. No top ten lists. No how to articles. No promotional nonsense. No link junk. No, no, no. Tell me a good story. Send your good stuff. Curious about what I&#8217;ve said &#8220;yes&#8221; to in the past? Here&#8217;s an <a title=\"Guest Posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/category\/29-guests\/\">archive of prior guest posts<\/a>. Or, you know, just read my blog. Thoughtful narrative, that&#8217;s what I like.<\/li>\n<li>What? <strong>You&#8217;re a photographer?<\/strong> Okay, you may send two, um, okay, three photos, tops, that tell a story together. Send the image links and a short description\/caption\/whatever. You know the drill.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You get one link<\/strong> in the footer of the post that goes back to your personal, non-commercial blog. This is about sharing great stories and finding new readers, not about link building. I will apply my totally random made up rules to what makes the cut for an acceptable link. Cue evil laughter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second hand stuff is fine<\/strong>, but please make sure it&#8217;s okay to publish elsewhere. I don&#8217;t want to be treading on rights you&#8217;ve signed away elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s it.<\/strong> Send your completed post &#8212; no need to send a pitch &#8212; in the body of an email to pam @ nerdseyeview dot com. Include two or three lines about who you are and that link back to your blog at the end of the post. I&#8217;ll notify everyone that&#8217;s accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;d love to pay for your work, and you should pursue those avenues first if the piece you want to send in belongs in a commercial publication. But this site isn&#8217;t commercial, so I&#8217;ve got nothing to pay you with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Truth?<\/strong> I love to share great new writers with the world and I hope you&#8217;ll take advantage of this chance to put your work in front of my readers who are smarter, kinder, more loyal, and better looking than anyone else on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the hell, I&#8217;m going to try it again. I&#8217;m throwing the gates open for guest posts. Why? Honestly, my head&#8217;s not in the blogging space right now and I could use some help maintaining the heartbeat of my blog until I&#8217;m back at the keyboard. Guidelines? Be afraid, be very afraid. Essays ONLY. No &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Open House\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/31\/open-house\/#more-9683\" aria-label=\"Read more about Open House\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29-guests","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9690,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions\/9690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}