{"id":39892,"date":"2011-08-17T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=39892"},"modified":"2011-08-17T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:16:54","slug":"dont-be-discouraged-you-have-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=39892","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Discouraged. You Have Talent.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old beginning comic sent a fan letter as well as audio tapes of some of his comedy routines to his biggest inspiration, Phil Hartman.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/08\/amateur-comedy-is-too-on-nail.html\">Here is Phil Hartman&#8217;s thoughtful and generous response<\/a>.  He took the time to really coach this kid, to tell him, essentially: &#8220;You&#8217;re taking the easy route. Challenge yourself. You can do better.&#8221;  Here are your gifts, here is what I see to be your strengths, you should go in that direction &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The kind of criticism that, when it is heard, and when it is said in the right way, can change the course of an artist&#8217;s life.  <\/p>\n<p>That letter is the meaning of generosity and makes me miss Phil Hartman even more.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old beginning comic sent a fan letter as well as audio tapes of some of his comedy routines to his biggest inspiration, Phil Hartman. Here is Phil Hartman&#8217;s thoughtful and generous response. He took the time to really coach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=39892\">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":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39893,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39892\/revisions\/39893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}