{"id":28,"date":"2003-06-19T02:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-09-29T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:34:35","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/19\/28\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling Closes Gap to $1 Billion The Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authoress J.K. Rowling, whose prowess with fascinating people with 11-year-old boys rivals Catholic seminaries, is closing in on becoming the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_457769.html\" target=\"new\">first billionaire author<\/a> and has discovered the <i>fast<\/i> track to wealth.  It&#8217;s not the book royalties or the merchandising rights after all.  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/article\/20030619\/D7ROHAQ80.html\" target=\"new\">$100 million dollar litigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s <i>suing<\/i> a newspaper for leaking details about the latest Harry Potter novel for <i><b>$100 million dollars<\/b><\/i>.  Give me a schnucking break.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Scholastic&#8217;s gonna punish retailers who break the rules:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retailers signed agreements not to put the book on sale early, with Scholastic threatening to punish violators by withholding timely shipments of future Potter books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pah!  I always like Tab book club better.  Neener neener neener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authoress J.K. Rowling, whose prowess with fascinating people with 11-year-old boys rivals Catholic seminaries, is closing in on becoming the first billionaire author and has discovered the fast track to wealth. It&#8217;s not the book royalties or the merchandising rights after all. It&#8217;s $100 million dollar litigation. She&#8217;s suing a newspaper for leaking details about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8116,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}