{"id":3186,"date":"2009-01-05T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2009-01-05T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T12:54:11","slug":"f-you-you-whining-f-1509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/f-you-you-whining-f-1509","title":{"rendered":"F*** You, You Whining F***: 1\/5\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors and publishers must now learn how to use telephones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(In a bonus piece of cluelessness, this article also focuses on publishers’ debilitating problem of returns from bookstores . . . without ever mentioning e-publishing! God forbid you mention a distribution venue that eliminates the cost of physical production, shipping and returns in an article about cutting costs!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editors and publishers must now learn how to use telephones. (In a bonus piece of cluelessness, this article also focuses on publishers’ debilitating problem of returns from bookstores . . . without ever mentioning e-publishing! God forbid you mention a distribution venue that eliminates the cost of physical production, shipping and returns in an article … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “F*** You, You Whining F***: 1\/5\/09”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-Po","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2760,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/f-you-you-whining-f-102508","url_meta":{"origin":3186,"position":0},"title":"F*** You, You Whining F***: 10\/25\/08","author":"Gil","date":"October 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I suppose a disproportionate number of these F*** You posts are going to come from the literary world. 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