{"id":1343,"date":"2007-09-20T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2007-09-20T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T12:00:25","slug":"on-rating-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"On Rating Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on the bulletin board run by Simon & Schuster, the parent company of Pocket Books, I’ve recently rated as an “Author.”<\/p>\n

Take a look. My name is in blue, and rather than a title of “Member,” I am now an “Author.”<\/p>\n

I’m an author. How does this happen?<\/p>\n

One of the sysadmins there dropped me a line — would I like an upgrade as one of Pocket’s authors? — and naturally I said yes. I wouldn’t have thought I’d have rated the notice, but hey. Someone wants to give me a custom title, who am I to complain? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

You can tell I don’t frequent that bulletin board much anymore — I’ve been registered there since 2000 (and I used that board a lot<\/i> in the late ’90s), yet since May 2000 I’ve only made two hundred posts.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to use my newfound author-fu powers for evil, not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on the bulletin board run by Simon & Schuster, the parent company of Pocket Books, I’ve recently rated as an “Author.” Take a look. My name is in blue, and rather than a title of “Member,” I am now an “Author.” I’m an author. How does this happen? One of the sysadmins there droppedContinue reading “On Rating Notice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[395,4102],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-star-trek-novels","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}