{"id":1838,"date":"2007-11-06T21:07:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1838"},"modified":"2008-01-10T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T15:07:10","slug":"speaking-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1838","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you sometimes read the book portion of my website, you may remember that in July I <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/400\">read and recommend Elizabeth Bear&#8217;s book New Amsterdam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did you go pick it up and read it then? No? Too bad. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1596061065?tag=randomreading-20&#038;camp=0&#038;creative=0&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=1596061065&#038;adid=0RQFYGD20X4MBXF7824P&#038;\">just looked on Amazon<\/a>, and copies are selling for $75.<\/p>\n<p>After hearing this, Michael suggested that I sell my copy.<\/p>\n<p>I may have to hide my copy from him, until he forgets this, because <em>New Amsterdam<\/em> was definitely a keeper. (And here I was waiting for a sequel. Lets hope that outrageous price means the book will go into reprint&#8211;and a new book about Abagail Irene is in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you sometimes read the book portion of my website, you may remember that in July I read and recommend Elizabeth Bear&#8217;s book New Amsterdam. Did you go pick it up and read it then? No? Too bad. I just looked on Amazon, and copies are selling for $75. After hearing this, Michael suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-tE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}