{"id":12611,"date":"2008-03-04T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12611"},"modified":"2014-01-13T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:35:58","slug":"steal-these-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/04\/steal-these-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Steal these books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=520472\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Stranger<\/i> reports<\/a> what it considers to be &#8220;the <i>New York Times<\/i> best-seller list of stolen books&#8221; as part of an article written by someone who&#8217;s worked at an independent bookstore for eight years.   I believe they only bring in the <i>Times<\/i>  metaphorically, though, and that the list is only anecdotal.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;authoritative top five&#8221; supposedly are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Charles Bukowski<br \/>\n2. Jim Thompson<br \/>\n3. Philip K. Dick<br \/>\n4. William S. Burroughs<br \/>\n5. Any Graphic Novel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d always heard that the Bible topped any such list, but that might be apocryphal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stranger reports what it considers to be &#8220;the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books&#8221; as part of an article written by someone who&#8217;s worked at an independent bookstore for eight years. I believe they only bring in the Times metaphorically, though, and that the list is only anecdotal. The &#8220;authoritative top five&#8221; [&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":[410],"class_list":["post-12611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-philip-k-dick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611","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=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12612,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions\/12612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}