{"id":6385,"date":"2009-12-20T13:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2009-12-20T13:38:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T18:38:18","slug":"if-i-were-a-betting-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/if-i-were-a-betting-man\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Were a Betting Man&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which I&#8217;m not, I&#8217;d say that the author of this book currently advertised on eBay will see none of the proceeds:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Just XML, 2nd edition, for only ONE [small print]thousand[\/small print] DOLLARs!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/justxml2nded_1k_sm.jpg?resize=500%2C224&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ha! And there are <em>5 available<\/em>, even! Hahahahaha&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>Omigod, thank you. I needed a good laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which I&#8217;m not, I&#8217;d say that the author of this book currently advertised on eBay will see none of the proceeds: Ha! And there are 5 available, even! Hahahahaha&#8230;! Omigod, thank you. I needed a good laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[223,17,5,209,713],"tags":[1551,1552,1553],"class_list":{"0":"post-6385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books-as-books","7":"category-04_technology","8":"category-06_writing","9":"category-the-business","10":"category-humor-writing_cat","11":"tag-just-xml","12":"tag-ebay","13":"tag-absurd-book-prices","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1EZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6389,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions\/6389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}