{"id":17,"date":"2008-04-13T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-04-13T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T20:30:07","slug":"first-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/first-review\/","title":{"rendered":"First Review!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Devon Kappa from the blog None May Say<\/a> for the first ever review of Timely Persuasion<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 I found it to be honest, balanced, and fair.\u00c2\u00a0 Also opened my eyes a bit to the synopsis, which I’ll probably take a stab at rewriting shortly…<\/p>\n

Review: Timely Persuasion by Jacob LaCivita<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Devon Kappa from the blog None May Say for the first ever review of Timely Persuasion.\u00c2\u00a0 I found it to be honest, balanced, and fair.\u00c2\u00a0 Also opened my eyes a bit to the synopsis, which I’ll probably take a stab at rewriting shortly… Review: Timely Persuasion by Jacob LaCivita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1169,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/read-an-ebook-week-2011-free-tp-at-smashwords\/","url_meta":{"origin":17,"position":0},"title":"Read an eBook Week 2011 – Free TP at Smashwords","author":"LBDG","date":"March 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year again. \u00c2\u00a0Read an eBook Week (or as I like to call it,\u00c2\u00a0Bob Zonis appreciation week). 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