{"id":490,"date":"2005-05-04T14:15:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2005-05-04T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T21:15:39","slug":"and-i-thought-only-my-heavy-books-would-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"And I thought only my heavy books would sell."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, had another book go. I figure if I get $20 for a book that was going to be in a bonfire anyway, that&#8217;s good. I spend about $5 on shipping and packaging, and I gain another few inches on my bookshelf. I should probably buy more bookshelves but. eh.<\/p>\n<p>So while I was geekily buying another padded envelope to ship out my book, I saw a guy copying a ham radio manual. I chatted with him for a while about the radio. Sort of reminds me of what my co-worker said to me the other day, &#8220;How old are you? You live at home with your parents, you&#8217;re the treasurer of the ham radio club. Do you ever get &lt;non-naughty word with naughty implications&gt;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, had another book go. I figure if I get $20 for a book that was going to be in a bonfire anyway, that&#8217;s good. I spend about $5 on shipping and packaging, and I gain another few inches on my bookshelf. I should probably buy more bookshelves but. eh. So while I was geekily buying another padded envelope to ship out my book, I saw a guy copying a ham radio manual. I chatted with him for a while about the radio. Sort of reminds me of what my co-worker said to me the other day, &#8220;How old are you? You live at home with your parents, you&#8217;re the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And I thought only my heavy books would sell.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}