{"id":2114,"date":"2015-10-21T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2015-11-06T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:37:34","slug":"aphorisms-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"Aphorisms: Judging a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>You can tell a lot about a book by its cover.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure, you won&#8217;t be 100% certain, but the cover gives away a lot about what will be inside. It&#8217;s supposed to.<\/p>\n<p>The best science fiction has cut rate artwork. Any cover that says this is &#8220;book 7 of the <em>Blah Trilogy<\/em>&#8221; will be vastly inferior to book 1 of said trilogy. If the cover says &#8220;By the author of <em>Other Book<\/em>&#8221; you should read Other Book first. Vanity publishings are generally easy to recognize and avoid.<\/p>\n<h3>Obsolete Saying<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><em>You can&#8217;t judge a book by its cover.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can tell a lot about a book by its cover. Sure, you won&#8217;t be 100% certain, but the cover gives away a lot about what will be inside. It&#8217;s supposed to. The best science fiction has cut rate artwork. Any cover that says this is &#8220;book 7 of the Blah Trilogy&#8221; will be vastly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[288],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-aphorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}