{"id":3,"date":"2008-02-29T15:09:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T23:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-03-01T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T23:35:31","slug":"and-were-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/and-were-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"And we’re launched!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Maybe I’ll write a book.”<\/p>\n

1,697 days ago that was my reply to my friend Jon Mack after iNetNow folded and he asked what I was going to do. Famous first words I suppose…<\/p>\n

Welcome to the official Timely Persuasion<\/a> blog. Now that the book is finally for sale, I intend to use this blog for news, fun facts, q&a, and other book related anecdotes. It will probably be a mix of real-time events and flashbacks to how it all began (hmmm…sounds like a good idea for a TV show<\/a>). I always intended to do a chapter by chapter commentary online before 6 weeks of jury duty got in the way, so this is probably a good place to serialize that as well.<\/p>\n

For now I still have a few things to prep and need a day or so to let the smoke clear. In the meantime, why not order your copy<\/a> or take a look at the free online version<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you come back to learn more.<\/p>\n

We’ve only just begun…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Maybe I’ll write a book.” 1,697 days ago that was my reply to my friend Jon Mack after iNetNow folded and he asked what I was going to do. Famous first words I suppose… Welcome to the official Timely Persuasion blog. Now that the book is finally for sale, I intend to use this blog…<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/paperback-writer\/","url_meta":{"origin":3,"position":0},"title":"Paperback Writer","author":"LBDG","date":"August 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Timely Persuasion is now available at Paperback Junction at 669 Washington Street in Easton, MA. 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