{"id":622,"date":"2015-10-29T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurtbusscoloradofreelancewriter.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:17:50","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurtbusscoloradofreelancewriter.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"And So It Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1960, and I am born. No experience. Call me <em>Stupit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve worked all my life for other people. It\u2019s 2015, and I have nothing to show for it. Except for my kids, which have nothing to do with working for other people \u2013 of being a cog in someone else\u2019s machine.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing I enjoyed most in all those years of working was writing. I just wasn\u2019t able to do it enough to make it a full-time job. I helped write Employee Manuals and Job Descriptions, copy for brochures and other pre-internet promotional materials. 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