{"id":287,"date":"2007-09-21T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=287"},"modified":"2007-09-21T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T23:50:00","slug":"hazards-of-shortening-a-book-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Hazards of shortening a book description&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I have gotten rather deft at reducing book descriptions to a set number of words, I always feel that there is potential for misunderstandings once you get below a certain point. Today I spotted a description in the new One Spirit Book Club mailing that exemplifies this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Based on ancient prophecies, this authoritative and highly engaging portrait explains just how close the earth could be to extinction&#8211;and why it could be a wonderful opportunity.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I know what the blurb-writer <u>means<\/u>, but, ummmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(The book is <i>Apocalypse 2012<\/i> by Lawrence E. Joseph. Given the number of books about the whole &#8220;2012&#8221; thing that are out, clearly it is providing a wonderful opportunity for authors of doomsday books. *wry smile*)<\/p>\n<p>And, gakked from <a href=\"http:\/\/anderyn.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">anderyn<\/a>: <!--more memage, just because...--><br \/>\n<center><a href=http:\/\/www.diagonalley.5u.com\/ollivanders\/index.html><img src=http:\/\/i76.photobucket.com\/albums\/j35\/pandora_6666\/ollivanders\/olive.gif border=0><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=292 style='border: 2px groove #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF;' border=2 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><font size=4 style='text-transform: capitalize;'>Wood type: olive<br \/>Length: 11\u00bd inches <br \/>Core: Gryffon Feather<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.diagonalley.5u.com\/ollivanders\/index.html><font size=5 style='text-transform: capitalize;'>get your own wand!<\/font><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have gotten rather deft at reducing book descriptions to a set number of words, I always feel that there is potential for misunderstandings once you get below a certain point. Today I spotted a description in the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=287\">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-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}