{"id":12406,"date":"2019-11-29T16:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12406"},"modified":"2019-11-29T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:26:42","slug":"personalized-pitches-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12406","title":{"rendered":"Personalized Pitches. Or Not."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I often get news or press releases for new products related to either the firearms or outdoor industry. I also sometimes get an article pitch asking to either post or at least link an article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got one of the latter from &#8220;Drake&#8221; this week. It had to do with Thanksgiving which is somewhat topical. &#8220;Drake&#8221; at least knew my first name so I&#8217;ll give him that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there was this paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I noticed on your website titled [XXXXwebsite nameXXXX] that you\u2019ve talked about Thanksgiving in the past, [XXXreferring page URLXXXX] so I assume you\u2019re still interested in the topic. It only comes once a year, so I wanted to talk about our history of Thanksgiving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ooops!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To protect the guilty I&#8217;m not going to post a link to the article or mention &#8220;Drake&#8217;s&#8221; website.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often get news or press releases for new products related to either the firearms or outdoor industry. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2736,4924],"class_list":["post-12406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marketing","tag-marketing-failure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406\/revisions\/12407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}