{"id":740,"date":"2006-05-02T23:20:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T06:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2006-05-02T23:20:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T06:20:53","slug":"perhaps-the-back-cover-is-even-more-important-than-the-insides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/05\/perhaps-the-back-cover-is-even-more-important-than-the-insides\/","title":{"rendered":"perhaps the back cover is even more important than the insides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am done with the first step of getting my novelette ready to publish. But I am having trouble with the back cover.<\/p>\n<p>I remember in an English class, the one on theory, where my teacher said that we seldom read ANYTHING that we don&#8217;t know anything about.<\/p>\n<p>We always have some idea of what to expect. It is packaged in some way, or has something on the cover that tells us how we are supposed to read it<\/p>\n<p>poems are<br \/>\nwritten in separate lines<br \/>\nso that<\/p>\n<p>We know to take them<br \/>\nseriously and soberly<br \/>\nas we read<\/p>\n<p>and then there are all kinds of other conventions. A whole language before you even get to the language. Is it bound in cardboard or on a spiral coil? How does the paper feel\/ Are there colors?<\/p>\n<p>These are all things I am having to take into consideration.  It&#8217;s pretty exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am done with the first step of getting my novelette ready to publish. But I am having trouble with the back cover. I remember in an English class, the one on theory, where my teacher said that we seldom &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/05\/perhaps-the-back-cover-is-even-more-important-than-the-insides\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2006\/05\/perhaps-the-back-cover-is-even-more-important-than-the-insides\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}