{"id":12414,"date":"2008-01-06T19:34:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2014-01-11T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:32:50","slug":"crashing-into-j-g-ballard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/06\/crashing-into-j-g-ballard\/","title":{"rendered":"Crashing into J.G. Ballard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think you have what it takes to design a cover for a limited edition of J.G. Ballard&#8217;s <i>Crash<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p><i>Times Online<\/i> and  Harper Collins have teamed up for a competition timed with the release of Ballard&#8217;s latest autobiography, <i>Miracles of Life: From Shanghai to Shepperton<\/i>, which will be published on February 4, 2008. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CrashReview.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/CrashReview-300x143.gif\" alt=\"CrashReview\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ballard himself will pick the winner from among the  six finalists chosen by the Harper Collins design team. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the competition is only open to residents of the UK and Ireland aged 16 and over. But those of you currently eligible&#151;or thinking of relocating to <i>become<\/i> eligible&#151;can find <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article3078743.ece\" target=\"_blank\">the details of the competition here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But how times&#151;and <i>The Times<\/i>&#151;have changed!  As you can tell from the complete review the same publication gave to <i>Crash<\/i> back on June 28, 1973 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you have what it takes to design a cover for a limited edition of J.G. Ballard&#8217;s Crash? Times Online and Harper Collins have teamed up for a competition timed with the release of Ballard&#8217;s latest autobiography, Miracles of Life: From Shanghai to Shepperton, which will be published on February 4, 2008. Ballard himself will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[387],"class_list":["post-12414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-j-g-ballard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12416,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions\/12416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}