{"id":9647,"date":"2012-08-16T09:51:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T20:18:15","slug":"horrible-book-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/9647","title":{"rendered":"Horrible Book Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3082\">I finished a book I enjoyed, but HOLY CARP the cover is HORRIFIC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, I searched online for images, and none of the images I found had the sheer horrificness of fake blood that was on my cover.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that someone fixed the cover, for later printings. Which makes the current cover bad, but not quite as OMFG YOU&#8217;VE GOT TO BE KIDDING horrible.<\/p>\n<p>So, here it is:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/7795072598\/\" title=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-front by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8286\/7795072598_0fea74c432.jpg?resize=305%2C500\" width=\"305\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-front\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/7795072228\/\" title=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-back by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8302\/7795072228_fa48aa42f4.jpg?resize=308%2C500\" width=\"308\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-back\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously. Click through the Flickr to see larger OMG AWFUL.<\/p>\n<p>Just to prove I didn&#8217;t photoshop that horrible blood in there, here is my co-worker Meredith, reacting to the cover.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/7795140212\/\" title=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-Meredith by Random Michelle, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7255\/7795140212_0de3e263e9.jpg?resize=500%2C400\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Eternal_Kiss_Darkness-Meredith\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you click through to Flickr, you can view full size and still see the horrific blood drips there.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I then loaned the book to Meredith to read, because it really is a good book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finished a book I enjoyed, but HOLY CARP the cover is HORRIFIC. Interestingly, I searched online for images, and none of the images I found had the sheer horrificness of fake blood that was on my cover. My guess is that someone fixed the cover, for later printings. Which makes the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1093,2,1092,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-covers","category-books-reading","category-covers","category-non-sequiturs","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2vB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647","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=9647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}