{"id":7835,"date":"2010-07-10T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2010-07-10T07:34:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T11:34:59","slug":"ill-take-a-used-copy-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/ill-take-a-used-copy-please\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Take a Used Copy, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Amazon.com partial screen capture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/gormenghastmmpback.jpg?resize=500%2C409&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>[Partial amazon.com screen capture, July 9, 2010]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, for some books &#8212; not all of them &#8220;great&#8221; ones, either &#8212; I might actually hesitate before deciding to go the cheap route, even with a price spread as broad as this. (I&#8217;m talking about <em>you<\/em>, you thick-page, large-format &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; book on natural history whose name I&#8217;ve long forgotten.)<\/p>\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Partial amazon.com screen capture, July 9, 2010] Funny thing is, for some books &#8212; not all of them &#8220;great&#8221; ones, either &#8212; I might actually hesitate before deciding to go the cheap route, even with a price spread as broad as this. (I&#8217;m talking about you, you thick-page, large-format &#8220;children&#8217;s&#8221; book on natural history whose [&hellip;]<\/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":[223,209],"tags":[1855,1883,1884,1885],"class_list":{"0":"post-7835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books-as-books","7":"category-the-business","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-gormenghast","10":"tag-mervyn-peake","11":"tag-used-books","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-22n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","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=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7836,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}