{"id":1761,"date":"2009-11-26T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/11\/26\/my_first_byline\/"},"modified":"2009-11-26T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T22:06:09","slug":"my_first_byline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/11\/26\/my_first_byline\/","title":{"rendered":"My first byline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;MS Hope MS Heroes&#8221;, the MS Society of Canada&#8217;s BC &amp; Yukon Division member newsletter.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2576\/4136264189_7d488b7ca7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nI have a couple of good friends with MS, one of whom works for the MS Society. I&#8217;ve raised money and volunteered for the Society before, but this was my first opportunity to use my professional training and skills in the process! My friend put me in touch with the local Communications Manager, and this piece of <del>blatant nepotism<\/del> skillful networking helped said Manager respond to reader demand for more news about MS research advances, while helping me add to my nascent portfolio. Win-win FTW!<br \/>\nSo. The weird capitalisation errors. Not mine, I swear<sup><a href=\"#fn8277018114f04ce5ca5113\">1<\/a><\/sup> &#8211; and I can prove it! I&#8217;m going to be writing at least one more article for the same publication, and possibly many more (it beats being a route marshal for the annual sponsored walk, which always seems to take place in a rainstorm). I do feel that I should point out the errors in order to avoid a future repetition, but as the editors and many of the other staff are volunteers, I don&#8217;t want to be mean.<br \/>\nSomething tells me that my next email might take almost as long to craft as the article itself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><sup>1<\/sup> Unlike any errors in this blog post, before Richard says anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;MS Hope MS Heroes&#8221;, the MS Society of Canada&#8217;s BC &amp; Yukon Division member newsletter. I have a couple of good friends with MS, one of whom works for the MS Society. I&#8217;ve raised money and volunteered for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/11\/26\/my_first_byline\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}