{"id":1664,"date":"2007-10-25T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/25\/ego-trip\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T14:22:38","slug":"ego-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/ego-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego-trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As well as discovering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/a_distinct_lack_of_interest\">I am top Google result for &#8220;EU debate&#8221;<\/a>, this week&#8217;s Private Eye has a piece on the sales figures of books shortlisted for this year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize. The winner, Anne Enright&#8217;s The Gathering, has apparently sold a good few hundred fewer copies (just 3,687) than the first of my own humble efforts (a guide to the films of Tim Burton, sales to date of what I thought was a fairly pathetic 4,500 or so).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as discovering that I am top Google result for &#8220;EU debate&#8221;, this week&#8217;s Private Eye has a piece on the sales figures of books shortlisted for this year&#8217;s Man Booker Prize. The winner, Anne Enright&#8217;s The Gathering, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/ego-trip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nosemonkey-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}