{"id":2747,"date":"2010-01-08T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2010-01-08T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:10:13","slug":"qotdthe-steve-martin-method-a-master-comedians-advice-for-becoming-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/qotdthe-steve-martin-method-a-master-comedians-advice-for-becoming-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"QOTD::The Steve Martin Method: A Master Comedian&#039;s Advice for Becoming Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Steve Martin Method<br \/>\nPeople often ask Martin about the secret to making it in the entertainment industry. His answer often disappoints. It does not involve any tricks (or, as we might call them: \u201chacks\u201d). No insider path to getting an agent or special formatting to get your screenplay read. Instead, it\u2019s all built on one simple idea:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cBe so good they can\u2019t ignore you.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/calnewport.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/the-steve-martin-method-a-master-comedians-advice-for-becoming-famous\/\">Study Hacks \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb The Steve Martin Method: A Master Comedian&#8217;s Advice for Becoming Famous<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steve Martin Method People often ask Martin about the secret to making it in the entertainment industry. His answer often disappoints. It does not involve any tricks (or, as we might call them: \u201chacks\u201d). No insider path to getting an agent or special formatting to get your screenplay read. Instead, it\u2019s all built on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/qotdthe-steve-martin-method-a-master-comedians-advice-for-becoming-famous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;QOTD::The Steve Martin Method: A Master Comedian&#039;s Advice for Becoming Famous&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,74,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read","category-quote-of-the-day","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}