{"id":191,"date":"2007-04-03T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=191"},"modified":"2007-04-03T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T11:56:00","slug":"good-gods-the-stuff-you-dont-think-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Good gods, the stuff you don&#8217;t think of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<p>Someone posted on the self-publishing list complaining that they&#8217;d sent their book to the Library of Congress (LoC) as required and still hadn&#8217;t seen the cataloging information for it. Peter Masterson posted a reply that included these tidbits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you submitted a book to the LoC &#8216;cold&#8217; and by mail there are<br \/>\nseveral possible reasons for delay. (1) All USPS mail to the LoC goes<br \/>\nto Iowa where it is irradiated to remove any disease spores (think<br \/>\nanthrax in the mail). This can add months to receipt at the LoC.*<br \/>. . .<br \/>*When sending materials to the US Government, it is best to use a courier service, such as FedEx or UPS &#8212; ground service is OK.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know that! 8-( I&#8217;ll have send <i>Mortal Touch<\/i> to them as soon as it&#8217;s published, that&#8217;s mandatory for the LCCN number.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone posted on the self-publishing list complaining that they&#8217;d sent their book to the Library of Congress (LoC) as required and still hadn&#8217;t seen the cataloging information for it. Peter Masterson posted a reply that included these tidbits: If you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}