{"id":254496,"date":"2007-08-16T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/16\/just-to-pile-on-a-bit\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:49","slug":"just-to-pile-on-a-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/16\/just-to-pile-on-a-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"Just to Pile On a Bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after commenting on the ridiculous LongPen a couple of times in the past week, I sat down to read the September issue of <i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i> last night and found this item in the &#8220;Readings&#8221; section from the LongPen website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Where did the idea come from?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As I was whizzing around the U.S. on yet another book tour, getting up at four int he morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the minibar at night as I crawled around on the hotel-room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, &#8220;There must be a better way of doing this.&#8221; With LongPen, the author could make &#8220;appearances&#8221; in different countries all in one day. The in-store book signing would be enhanced. You could have an event with three different authors: a big one, a medium one, and a local one, in the same store on the same afternoon, one after the other.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pringle food objects! Man, The price of celebrity is rough. I&#8217;m glad there&#8217;s an impersonal, mechanical object capable of making life easier for certain authors and totally commodifying the author event experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after commenting on the ridiculous LongPen a couple of times in the past week, I sat down to read the September issue of Harper&#8217;s last night and found this item in the &#8220;Readings&#8221; section from the LongPen website: Where did the idea come from? As I was whizzing around the U.S. on yet another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,4256,3816,3826],"class_list":["post-254496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-harpers","tag-longpen","tag-rant"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363316,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254496\/revisions\/363316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}