{"id":879,"date":"2013-07-18T21:36:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T02:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=879"},"modified":"2013-07-18T21:36:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T02:36:32","slug":"initials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Initials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-883\" alt=\"JK-rowling\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JK-rowling-257x300.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JK-rowling-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/JK-rowling.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/>So the latest news in the big &#8220;JK Rowling is also Robert Galbraith&#8221; story is that her law firm has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/news\/jk-rowling-crime-mystery-solved-law-firm-sorry-for-exposing-identity-of-the-cuckoos-calling-author-8718087.html\">fallen on its sword and taken responsibility for the leak<\/a>, which doesn&#8217;t speak to their being good at the whole confidentiality thing.\u00a0 It may cut down on a few of the rumors about the whole thing being a ploy on the part of her publisher to boost sales, though (I think we can assume Rowling herself didn&#8217;t do it, since at some point why would she need more money?\u00a0 I think she already has enough to fill up the deep end of her swimming pool of money and allow for diving).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was rather interested in some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=5315#more-5315\">detective work that went into confirming that she wrote the mystery<\/a>.\u00a0 In a way, it seems similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/acubedsf.com\/2013\/06\/18\/i-write-like\/\">&#8220;I write like&#8221; test<\/a>, only more sophisticated and less vocab-based (for those who are interested, I write like Stephen King or Jane Austen, depending on what &#8220;S.M.&#8221; stands for).\u00a0 It also seems as though there may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/jk-rowling-revealed-to-be-pseudonym-for-newt-gingr,33122\/?ref=auto\">more to the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just thought it was interesting, this talk of a writer going by initials and banging out several bestselling books.\u00a0 Not that I&#8217;m saying that just because I write under &#8220;S.M.&#8221; I&#8217;m also a famous author.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying that and neither is my lawyer.\u00a0 But if I <em>was<\/em>, well, it would certainly be wise to grab up copies of everything I write now, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the latest news in the big &#8220;JK Rowling is also Robert Galbraith&#8221; story is that her law firm has fallen on its sword and taken responsibility for the leak, which doesn&#8217;t speak to their being good at the whole confidentiality thing.\u00a0 It may cut down on a few of the rumors about the whole [&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-879","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\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}