{"id":1683,"date":"2008-09-30T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2008-09-30T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T15:00:50","slug":"a-day-full-of-awesome-mediawise-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1683","title":{"rendered":"A day full of awesome. (Mediawise, that is.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider this a public service announcement that Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book,<\/i><\/a> Terry Pratchett’s Nation<\/a><\/i> AND Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love<\/i><\/a> are out today. TODAY. Go! Stop reading this and go,<\/i> dammit! Hie thee to a bookstore! Or Amazon!
\nI could also note that the 2-disc Blu-Ray set of Iron Man<\/i><\/a> is out today, but I suspect that will take care of its own sales figures, thankyouverymuch.
\nTwo additional things I will<\/i> note, however, is that Jonathan Carroll’s jonathancarroll.com<\/a> has received an astonishingly beautiful makeover, using a palette similar to my own and a design that I wish I’d thought of (and may indeed lift bits of at some point in the future, especially the gorgeous blend of blacks and parchment and breathtakingly beautiful photography); and that Kelly Link’s Pretty Monsters<\/a><\/i> is out next week, so you might as well pre-order that while you’re clicking away at Amazon. I mean, it’s just the efficient thing to do.
\n(I myself would be clicking away if I weren’t so damned impatient. Off to the mall I go ASAP after work, I suspect…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Consider this a public service announcement that Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Terry Pratchett’s Nation AND Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love are out today. TODAY. Go! Stop reading this and go, dammit! Hie thee to a bookstore! Or Amazon! I could also note that the 2-disc Blu-Ray set of Iron Man is out today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-r9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}