{"id":1149,"date":"2005-01-17T01:54:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/update_on_book_"},"modified":"2005-01-17T01:54:06","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T06:54:06","slug":"update_on_book_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1149","title":{"rendered":"Update on book progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rough editing is almost complete. I used NoteTab which has a nice outline feature. I am really indebted to Fred First for introducing me to this very handy text editor. <\/p>\n<p>Now I am thrashing about with Open Office, formatting a document with trade paperback-sized pages for review. That should be done in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/esgcoverthumb.jpg\" title=\"Esgcoverthumb\" alt=\"Esgcoverthumb\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t have a title, but I am still using Employee Survival Guide as the working title, although the material would more seem to support a title like, &quot;Escaping the Corporate Quagmire. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, I am going to have some covers for you to evaluate and will go with whatever communicates best what the book contains.<\/p>\n<p>I have now confined the subject material to corporate employment and the newly revised <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/esg\/ESG-Chapter-Headings.htm\">chapter headings<\/a> reflect the sound advice of William Wren, of writelife.<\/p>\n<p>The material on running your own business will be in a second book which will deal with the issues and joys of post-corporate life and business activity. <\/p>\n<p>I am encouraged by your interest and your responses. I have all of the reviewers I need right now for the pre-printed version of the book, but I will have pdf versions to download in the future. The purpose of this first review is to make sure that the guide is arranged to provide an optimum user experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rough editing is almost complete. I used NoteTab which has a nice outline feature. I am really indebted to Fred First for introducing me to this very handy text editor. Now I am thrashing about with Open Office, formatting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1804,1823],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-ix","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}