{"id":4309,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/one-of-these-days\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:24:14","slug":"one-of-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4309","title":{"rendered":"One of these days&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I will listen to people who are wiser than I, and I will get it through my thick skull that <em>no good<\/em> can ever come of me walking into a Barnes &amp; Noble and looking for my newly released novel.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because authors tend to the neurotic, and I&#8217;m one of those who ruins the curve for the rest of the class.  \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>If they don&#8217;t have the book, my assumption is never &quot;They sold out,&quot; but rather &quot;They didn&#8217;t bother to order it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If there are <em>lots<\/em> of the new book, my assumption is &quot;It&#8217;s not selling.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>If (as was the case today), there are only a couple (and they weren&#8217;t even shelved in the new releases, where they should have been), then my assumption is that they didn&#8217;t bother to order more than a few of them, because they didn&#8217;t expect them to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Notice, of course, that in <em>all three cases<\/em>, the correct answer <em>could<\/em> be &quot;Hey, the book&#8217;s selling.&quot; But that&#8217;s never my first assumption.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I will listen to people who are wiser than I, and I will get it through my thick skull that no good can ever come of me walking into a Barnes &amp; Noble and looking for my newly released novel. Why? Because authors tend to the neurotic, and I&#8217;m one of those who ruins the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}