{"id":1867,"date":"2015-04-21T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2015-04-21T18:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:50:26","slug":"books-beside-me-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Books Beside Me, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is my copy of <strong>The Princess Bride <\/strong>by <strong>William Goldman<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PrincessBride.jpg\" alt=\"PrincessBride\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PrincessBride.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PrincessBride-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The sticker on the front cover used to say its price &#8211; three pounds. I bought it to celebrate the arrival in the post of the contract for <strong>my first book deal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The advance wasn&#8217;t big but it was going to be much appreciated: that night (18th Feb 2005) I had about two pounds left in the bank but enough in my pockets to pay for a bottle of tonic and this book that I knew and still love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was very happy, and whenever I&#8217;ve picked it up since I remember that feeling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More of the <strong>Books Beside Me <\/strong>coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my copy of The Princess Bride by William Goldman: The sticker on the front cover used to say its price &#8211; three pounds. I bought it to celebrate the arrival in the post of the contract for my first book deal. The advance wasn&#8217;t big but it was going to be much appreciated: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patron-of-reading","category-try-this-its-brilliant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}