{"id":100,"date":"2008-02-11T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-02-11T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:18:00","slug":"petepourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Petepourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few bits of miscellanea on my way out the door:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The disgustingly-but-unforgettably-named &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/puppybuckets.blogspot.com\/\">Puppy Buckets<\/a>&#8221; has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/puppybuckets.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/starfish.html\">review<\/a> of the soon-to-be-resurrected <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Starfish<\/span> \u2014 although if you hang out here regularly you&#8217;ll already know whether the book&#8217;s any good.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re less than a month away from the paperback edition of <i>Blindsight<\/i>, and to drum up reader interest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blindsight-Peter-Watts\/dp\/0765319640\/ref=ed_oe_p\">Amazon.com<\/a> has taken down the much-improved cover design for that edition and replaced it with the crappy hardcover layout.  And can anyone tell me why that page keeps listing <i>Blindsight<\/i> as &#8220;popular&#8221; in the category &#8220;Short Stories \u2014> Canadian&#8221;?  (It was also listed as popular &#8220;World Fiction&#8221; a few days back, but the world seems to have since come to its senses.)<\/li>\n<li>Have officially started writing <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dumbspeech<\/span>.  Completed the first draft of the Prelude just yesterday.  God, it sucks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few bits of miscellanea on my way out the door: The disgustingly-but-unforgettably-named &#8220;Puppy Buckets&#8221; has posted a review of the soon-to-be-resurrected Starfish \u2014 although if you hang out here regularly you&#8217;ll already know whether the book&#8217;s any good. We&#8217;re less than a month away from the paperback edition of Blindsight, and to drum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}