{"id":2640,"date":"2009-01-12T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2009-01-12T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T17:58:16","slug":"traveling-tastebuds-growing-pains-by-devon-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/12\/traveling-tastebuds-growing-pains-by-devon-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Tastebuds:  Growing Pains &#8211; by Devon Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Devon Brown<\/strong><\/a> (Tokyo-to, 2002-04) is a freelance writer with a focus on food.\u00a0 You can read more of her writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TravelingTastebuds.blogspot.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/travelingtastebuds.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/growing-pains.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s her latest post <\/a>in which she comments on, and asks for perspective on, freelance travel writing:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling betrayed, so just for today I need to digress from my usual subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>About a month ago, I landed my first article in a national magazine. I worked hard on my little 250 word piece. I was getting paid $1 a word after all and this piece was my national debut. Well I turned that piece in and it was full of rhythm and pep and I was really proud. When I was asked to revise I understood, but when I read the final edited piece it looked nothing like me. Sure it was my subject matter, but my voice was gone, and my rhythm was gone. I had been hacked. And now I&#8217;m wondering if I&#8217;m being too sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>Is this normal? Is this what I should expect as new-bee in this industry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Brown (Tokyo-to, 2002-04) is a freelance writer with a focus on food.\u00a0 You can read more of her writing at TravelingTastebuds.blogspot.com. Here&#8217;s her latest post in which she comments on, and asks for perspective on, freelance travel writing: I&#8217;m feeling betrayed, so just for today I need to digress from my usual subject matter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-career","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-GA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}