{"id":296696,"date":"2014-03-05T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/03\/05\/open-letter-editor-getting-hit-in-the-face-repeatedly\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:44:25","slug":"open-letter-editor-getting-hit-in-the-face-repeatedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/03\/05\/open-letter-editor-getting-hit-in-the-face-repeatedly\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter Editor Getting Hit in the Face, Repeatedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t exactly books related, but in case you&#8217;re one of the millions of people of people who have come across this photo recently (like on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/05\/kaija-straumanis_n_4897503.html\">HuffPo,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlntv.com\/slideshow\/2014\/03\/04\/stuff-being-thrown-my-head-kaija-straumanis-photos\"><span class=\"caps\">HLN<\/span> TV,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/tmwc3\">Reddit,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2573756\/Suffering-art-Photographer-creates-unique-series-self-portraits-hit-face-ball-shoes-pumpkin.html\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/features\/5487138\/selfie-harm.html\"><em>The Sun<\/em>,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/stuff-being-thrown-at-my-head-kaija-straumanis\/\">Bored Panda,<\/a> the oft-ridiculed <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/443491\/stuff-being-thrown-at-my-head-is-exactly-what-it-sounds-like\/view-all\/\">Flavorwire,<\/a> and several others), I have two things to tell you: <\/p>\n<p><txp_image id=\"5792\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1) Yes, that is a copy of Ricardas Gavelis&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/books\/products\/vilnius-poker\"><em>Vilnius Poker<\/em>,<\/a> which is published by Open Letter; and,<\/p>\n<p>2) Yes, that is Open Letter editor Kaija Straumanis, whose series of &#8220;Headshots&#8221; have gone totally viral (over 3 million visits to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/23558082@N03\/\">Flickr<\/a> page in just over 24 hours). <\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Kaija! Hopefully some percentage of these visits will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/kleinemoewe\">buy one of her photos<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/inga-abele\/products\/high-tide\">her translation of <em>High Tide<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/collections\/books\/products\/vilnius-poker\">the <em>Vilnius Poker<\/em> website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t exactly books related, but in case you&#8217;re one of the millions of people of people who have come across this photo recently (like on HuffPo, HLN TV, Reddit, Daily Mail The Sun, Bored Panda, the oft-ridiculed Flavorwire, and several others), I have two things to tell you: 1) Yes, that is a copy [&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":[55256,39476,1866],"class_list":["post-296696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-headshots","tag-kaija-straumanis","tag-open-letter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296696","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=296696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338506,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296696\/revisions\/338506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}