{"id":155,"date":"2008-07-11T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=155"},"modified":"2018-10-31T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T16:39:11","slug":"galley-cat-strut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Galley Cat Strut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been subscribed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Galleycat<\/a> for some time, because it&#8217;s one of those book industry blogs that gets lots of buzz and what not.\u00a0 Though they studiously ignore me when I ask them to look at the books I&#8217;m publishing.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s okay, publishing isn&#8217;t the sort of business where you take being ignored seriously.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I removed Galleycat from my Magical Google Reader program today because of their ongoing &#8220;summer cats&#8221; series.\u00a0 Literary-themed lolcats!\u00a0 It&#8217;s agonizing.\u00a0 Day after day of multiple posts&#8230; Well, follow the link above and see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>And if this doesn&#8217;t put the horror into focus, I don&#8217;t know what will:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another morning full of cat photos, and another round of voting for your favorite\u2014remember, the most popular cat from today&#8217;s roster will take on the winner from yesterday&#8217;s batch sometime next week, and the winner of that poll will receive copies of An Infamous Army and two other novels by NPR-endorsed romance novelist Georgette Heyer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesus, even the prize is gay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been subscribed to Galleycat for some time, because it&#8217;s one of those book industry blogs that gets lots of buzz and what not.\u00a0 Though they studiously ignore me when I ask them to look at the books I&#8217;m &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=155\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Galley Cat Strut<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[402,220,176],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-galley-cat","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}