{"id":55,"date":"2005-06-06T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/plugging\/"},"modified":"2005-06-06T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T15:01:00","slug":"plugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/06\/plugging\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you still looking for the perfect Father&#8217;s Day or graduation gift, your prayers have been answered. Amazon.co.uk has wisely decided to offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805387323\/ref=pd_bxgy_text_2_cp\/202-6845358-7239829\">my book<\/a> in a special deal along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.harvard.edu\/randall.htm\">Lisa Randall&#8217;s<\/a> new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0713996994\/qid=1118073391\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl\/202-6845358-7239829\">Warped Passages<\/a> (as noticed by <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/\">Lubos<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/wpsg.jpg\" \/><\/center><br \/>To be honest, one book doesn&#8217;t lead naturally into the other; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060531088\/lecturenotesonge\/\">Lisa&#8217;s<\/a> is a popular-level exposition of branes and extra dimensions, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805387323\/lecturenotesonge\/\">mine<\/a> is a graduate-level text in general relativity.  But hey, you could do worse.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to know is:  who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books-uk&#038;field-author=Neely%2C%20John\/202-6845358-7239829\">John Neely<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books-uk&#038;field-author=Kibbe%2C%20Richard\/202-6845358-7239829\">Richard Kibbe<\/a>, and why does amazon.co.uk think they are co-authors of my book? I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve never heard of these guys. Hope they&#8217;re not cutting in on my substantial royalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you still looking for the perfect Father&#8217;s Day or graduation gift, your prayers have been answered. Amazon.co.uk has wisely decided to offer my book in a special deal along with Lisa Randall&#8217;s new book, Warped Passages (as noticed by Lubos). To be honest, one book doesn&#8217;t lead naturally into the other; Lisa&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}