{"id":215,"date":"2012-05-30T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/?p=215"},"modified":"2012-05-30T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T20:19:47","slug":"the-book-struts-frets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/2012\/05\/30\/the-book-struts-frets\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Struts &amp; Frets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this image: <em>Darwin&#8217;s Devices <\/em>is listed under &#8220;Hot Books,&#8221; on Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s home page!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, honesty check.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not listed any more.\u00a0 I took this screen shot on May 25th.\u00a0 Poof.\u00a0 Then <em>Darwin&#8217;s Devices<\/em> was gone.\u00a0 A brief flare goes up, and then burns out.\u00a0 &#8220;Life&#8217;s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.&#8221;\u00a0 And, yes, I&#8217;m aware that MacBeth&#8217;s next line is about a tale told by an idiot.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll own that.\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 publishers talk about the &#8220;life&#8221; of a book&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/files\/2012\/05\/Barnes-Noble-hot-books-home-page-25May20121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/files\/2012\/05\/Barnes-Noble-hot-books-home-page-25May20121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/files\/2012\/05\/Barnes-Noble-hot-books-home-page-25May20121.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/files\/2012\/05\/Barnes-Noble-hot-books-home-page-25May20121-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this image: Darwin&#8217;s Devices is listed under &#8220;Hot Books,&#8221; on Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s home page! Okay, honesty check.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not listed any more.\u00a0 I took this screen shot on May 25th.\u00a0 Poof.\u00a0 Then Darwin&#8217;s Devices was gone.\u00a0 A brief flare goes up, and then burns out.\u00a0 &#8220;Life&#8217;s but a walking shadow, a poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/darwinsdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}