{"id":475,"date":"2007-02-06T20:53:54","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T18:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/02\/06\/blank-space\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T20:53:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T18:53:54","slug":"blank-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/blank-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Blank Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of the Journal of Evangelical Theological Society<\/em> arrived in the mail today.  Near the back is my first published book review.  Yes, I know.  I’ve been a teacher for how long<\/em> and I’m not announcing my first book<\/em>.  All these years and one measly little book review about a book that’s not really a book in a journal of a small fringe group of religious scholars.  I’m a loser; thanks for the reminder.<\/p>\n

Actually, it’s not the first book review I’ve written<\/em>.  No, about 10 years ago I wrote another book review.  It was rejected.  From an even lesser journal with a readership of 13 people or so.  They said it was too negative.  (Or maybe they used words like “cruel,” “brutal,” or “crushing;” I can’t remember.)<\/p>\n

So I’m on my way.  In another ten years, maybe I’ll have another book review accepted.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, no student has ever asked me how many book reviews I’ve written.  None has ever complained on a course evaluation that I don’t write enough journal articles.  But when it comes time to writing a resume, filling out a professional form, or applying for further studies, there’s lots of blank space.<\/p>\n

(If you want more than self-reflecting drivel, see the <\/font>other post<\/font><\/a> I wrote today.)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest issue of the Journal of Evangelical Theological Society arrived in the mail today.  Near the back is my first published book review.  Yes, I know.  I’ve been a teacher for how long and I’m not announcing my first book.  All these years and one measly little book review about a book that’s not really a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accomplishments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}