{"id":2577,"date":"2019-08-11T19:32:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T02:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2019-08-12T04:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T11:15:19","slug":"my-elevator-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"My Elevator Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2328\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Professional writers call them \u201celevator pitches.\u201d If you had only a short elevator ride to pitch your book to a (pick one) agent, publisher or reader, what would you say?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here\u2019s mine:<\/p>\n<p>Retirement can be scary. It was for me. The temptation is to see it as an ending\u2014to physical abilities, mental agility, important relationships, meaningful work, decent income\u2014and the freedom and joy these bring.<\/p>\n<p>But research shows it doesn\u2019t have to be that way.<\/p>\n<p>Never have I had more opportunity to chase my dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Never have I had more opportunity to help others do the same.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s been my experience. And that&#8217;s what my book is all about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional writers call them \u201celevator pitches.\u201d If you had only a short elevator ride to pitch your book to a (pick one) agent, publisher or reader, what would you say? Well, here\u2019s mine: Retirement can be scary. It was for me. The temptation is to see it as an ending\u2014to physical abilities, mental agility, important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}