{"id":1009,"date":"2014-01-23T21:16:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T02:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2014-01-23T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T02:16:48","slug":"im-missing-something-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Missing Something Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1010\" alt=\"frey\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/frey.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" \/>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jan\/15\/james-frey-2m-deal-young-adult-sf-novel\">someone is paying James Frey $2 million to rewrite Hunger Games<\/a>.\u00a0 And before that he came up with the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/11\/13\/the-man-in-the-frey-flannel-suit\/\">paying other authors $250 for completed manuscripts he could sell<\/a>.\u00a0 And before that was the whole thing with Oprah yelling at him for the biography o&#8217; clumsy lies.<\/p>\n<p>Soooo &#8230; why do these things keep happening?\u00a0 He could just go away and stop bothering everyone, right?\u00a0 I mean, say what you like about Terry Brooks, but at least he never irritated Oprah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, someone is paying James Frey $2 million to rewrite Hunger Games.\u00a0 And before that he came up with the idea of paying other authors $250 for completed manuscripts he could sell.\u00a0 And before that was the whole thing with Oprah yelling at him for the biography o&#8217; clumsy lies. Soooo &#8230; why do these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}