{"id":674,"date":"2009-06-05T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-06-05T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:40:00","slug":"quote-for-today-too-long-to-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Quote for today (too long to tweet!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the post-BEA reflection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/06\/04\/books-publishing-social-media-opinions-columnists-kindle-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why Write Books?<\/a> by Elisabeth Eaves, deputy editor at <em>Forbes:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In short, book-writing is a worse-than-ever means to a livelihood, and mass-market renown is disappearing as a concept, fractioning into a million niches. Ultimately the only good reason to write books remains what it probably always was: The compulsion to try to entertain, persuade or make meaning is irresistible, and the process absorbs you like nothing else. If it doesn&#8217;t, there&#8217;s no reason to bother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the post-BEA reflection, Why Write Books? by Elisabeth Eaves, deputy editor at Forbes: In short, book-writing is a worse-than-ever means to a livelihood, and mass-market renown is disappearing as a concept, fractioning into a million niches. Ultimately the only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=674\">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-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}