{"id":255516,"date":"2007-09-05T15:17:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T15:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/05\/little-more-on-calder\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:29","slug":"little-more-on-calder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/05\/little-more-on-calder\/","title":{"rendered":"Little More on Calder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Guardian<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.guardian.co.uk\/art\/news\/story\/0,,2160757,00.html\">a bit more information<\/a> on the Calder\/Oneworld &mdash; Gallimard\/Minuit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=295\">conflict.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s actually not a lot new here, although this story about John Calder illustrates why he&#8217;s one of the most interesting individuals in publishing. (Really, there are few more charming people in publishing than Calder. And no one has better stories.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Calder has a track record of personal clashes. He split acrimoniously from his original business partner, Marion Boyars, and his two marriages ended bitterly. He was born the son of a wealthy brewer in Ayrshire but was disinherited when he failed to produce a surviving male heir. His second child, a girl, was named James and even disguised as a boy for a few months. Calder went on to successfully run a timber yard he inherited from an uncle before turning to publishing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has a bit more information on the Calder\/Oneworld &mdash; Gallimard\/Minuit conflict. There&#8217;s actually not a lot new here, although this story about John Calder illustrates why he&#8217;s one of the most interesting individuals in publishing. (Really, there are few more charming people in publishing than Calder. And no one has better stories.) Calder [&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":[5736,1836],"class_list":["post-255516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-calder","tag-cwp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255516","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=255516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362636,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255516\/revisions\/362636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}