{"id":1887,"date":"2021-04-29T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T12:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:44:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T18:44:33","slug":"postcard-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/29\/postcard-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"POSTCARD FROM THE PAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Talk about a throwback Thursday! This goes to show how long I have been at the creative writing business. Below is a picture of a postcard I sent to my friend Rita in Spain. It dates back to 1974 and shows that I entered a novella in a writing contest sponsored by the English Department at Queens College in NY, where I was attending at the time. It also says I was taking 16 credits. Ah, youth! Can&#8217;t do that any more. Of course, my amateurish paranormal novella didn&#8217;t win the $1,000 prize, or any prize for that matter, but it began a lifelong endeavor to become a published writer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is truly awesome, despite the ups and downs of life, to know I have achieved, not only publication of my novels, but also the title &#8220;award-winning.&#8221; Perseverance. Perseverance.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1888\" src=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Postcard-1974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"855\" height=\"549\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about a throwback Thursday! This goes to show how long I have been at the creative writing business. Below is a picture of a postcard I sent to my friend Rita in Spain. It dates back to 1974 and shows that I entered a novella in a writing contest sponsored by the English Department &#8230; <a title=\"POSTCARD FROM THE PAST\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/29\/postcard-from-the-past\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about POSTCARD FROM THE PAST\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welcome-to-my-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariaelenawrites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}