{"id":557,"date":"2003-03-05T10:15:55","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2003-03-05T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2003-03-05T14:15:55","slug":"improbable-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Improbable wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three small items of financial news today. Someone made an offer onthe Japanese rights of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\">Worm Book.<\/a> I accepted.<\/p>\n\n<p>My friend Damian told me what he he&#8217;d got for three hours&#8217; work writing about Rowan Williams for the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> last Wednesday afternoon. I&#8217;m not jealous, of course not. I have been paid the same rate by the same people. But it was almost exactly what the Japanese rights of the whole worm book fetched.<\/p>\n\n<p>And I just found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/stores\/offering\/list\/-\/0340396954\/all\/ref=dp_bb_a\/104-0272725-8809546\">someone<\/a> on Amazon.com is selling a copy of my police book, written nearly twenty years ago, for $107.00.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three small items of financial news today. Someone made an offer onthe Japanese rights of the Worm Book. I accepted. My friend Damian told me what he he&#8217;d got for three hours&#8217; work writing about Rowan Williams for the Daily &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}