{"id":686,"date":"2011-09-08T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2011-09-08T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:41:18","slug":"my-pet-peeve-with-some-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/my-pet-peeve-with-some-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pet Peeve with (Some) Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my pet peeve: being sent books I didn&#8217;t ask for.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an author, don?t send me a copy of your book unsolicited in the mail. Ask me for permission first.<\/p>\n<p>My office is overflowing with business books authors have sent me ? books I will never have time to read but hate to throw out, thereby resulting in annoying clutter. (You should see the place!) One author sent me 2 copies of his book after I asked him not to.<\/p>\n<p>If I agree to review your book and it is an e-book, don?t e-mail me a PDF; send me a hard copy print-out in the mail. I don?t want to consume my paper and ink printing out your book.<\/p>\n<p>Fair enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my pet peeve: being sent books I didn&#8217;t ask for. If you are an author, don?t send me a copy of your book unsolicited in the mail. Ask me for permission first. My office is overflowing with business books authors have sent me ? books I will never have time to read but hate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}