{"id":3260,"date":"2013-02-07T16:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T05:12:51","slug":"international-please-dont-pirate-my-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/international-please-dont-pirate-my-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International &#8216;Please Don&#8217;t Pirate My Book&#8217; Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, today is International &#8216;Please Don&#8217;t Pirate My Book&#8217; Day. Or maybe it was yesterday? Anyway, you already know <a href=\"http:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/regarding-internet-piracy\/\" title=\"Memoranda: Regarding Internet Piracy\" target=\"_blank\">what I think<\/a> about people who illegally download copies of my books instead of buying the books or borrowing them from a library (and, for that matter, what I think of the term &#8216;piracy&#8217; to describe this behaviour), but <a href=\"http:\/\/seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com\/493792.html\" title=\"Seanan McGuire: International 'Please Don't Pirate My Book' Day\" target=\"_blank\">Seanan McGuire<\/a> has just written a very good blog post about the issue, which you might find interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to take this opportunity to say a big &#8216;thank you&#8217; to those of you who <i>do<\/i> buy books. You&#8217;re awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, today is International &#8216;Please Don&#8217;t Pirate My Book&#8217; Day. Or maybe it was yesterday? Anyway, you already know what I think about people who illegally download copies of my books instead of buying the books or borrowing them from a library (and, for that matter, what I think of the term &#8216;piracy&#8217; to describe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/international-please-dont-pirate-my-book-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International &#8216;Please Don&#8217;t Pirate My Book&#8217; Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-this-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellecooper-writer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}