{"id":2028,"date":"2008-12-19T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2008-12-19T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:55:08","slug":"we-are-not-beginners-we-will-not-be-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/we-are-not-beginners-we-will-not-be-fooled\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not beginners, we will not be fooled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Books are not Hollywood, to the general astonishment of agents and corporate suits. They are intimate, unpredictable agents of delicious rebellion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I buy the thesis in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/opinions\/2008\/12\/12\/book-publishing-authors-oped-cx_lo_1212osborne.html\">Osborne&#8217;s piece<\/a>, but I really would like the believe I live in the world that this quote from it describes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8220;Books are not Hollywood, to the general astonishment of agents and corporate suits. They are intimate, unpredictable agents of delicious rebellion.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure I buy the thesis in Osborne&#8217;s piece, but I really would like the believe I live in the world that this quote from it describes. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/19\/we-are-not-beginners-we-will-not-be-fooled\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[8],"tags":[458,265,125,158],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-economics","tag-quote","tag-the-masses","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-wI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}