{"id":476,"date":"2012-06-14T18:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=476"},"modified":"2012-06-14T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:22:33","slug":"well-now-we-know-where-ann-patchett-stands-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Well, Now We Know Where Ann Patchett Stands, Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"henryV\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/henryV.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"272\" \/>Whatever you think of Amazon, you really can&#8217;t go wrong in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2012\/0607\/Ann-Patchett-calls-out-Amazon\">Quoting <em>Henry V<\/em><\/a> if you want to rally folks against it.\u00a0 Actually, you can&#8217;t go wrong quoting Henry V to rally folks to do just about anything.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, I&#8217;m talking about quoting <em>Henry V<\/em> the play, so really I suppose you&#8217;re quoting Billy Shakes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure the actual Henry was ever quite that inspirational.\u00a0 I mean, he did win at Agincourt, but let&#8217;s face it; long bows had a little something to do with that.\u00a0 Long bows and mud.\u00a0 Maybe independent booksellers should look into the &#8220;old mud and longbows&#8221; approach (and as an aside, if some indie bookseller does rise and defeat Amazon, I think he or she should be called &#8220;Old Mud and Longbows&#8221; whether they actually figure into it or not.)<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/A-yZNMWFqvM?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you think of Amazon, you really can&#8217;t go wrong in Quoting Henry V if you want to rally folks against it.\u00a0 Actually, you can&#8217;t go wrong quoting Henry V to rally folks to do just about anything. To be clear, I&#8217;m talking about quoting Henry V the play, so really I suppose you&#8217;re quoting [&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-476","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\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}