{"id":36,"date":"2004-11-01T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T08:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/bugger\/"},"modified":"2004-11-01T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T08:59:08","slug":"bugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/bugger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody&#8217;s beaten me to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Truffle Book<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry if you&#8217;re offended by the word \u201cbugger\u201d. It\u2019s an everyday part of the language down here, thanks in no small part to an amusing TV ad for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visit4info.com\/details.cfm?adid=6099\">farm vehicle<\/a>. It is also a precise expression of my frustration at discovering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/3899853075\/qid=1099276746\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl\/026-9825863-5761235\">someone else<\/a> has beaten me to the use of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Truffle Book<\/span> as a title. Now I&#8217;ll have to think of something else, and the carefully cultivated uniformity of my book titles has been destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I\u2019ll call it something pretentious like <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Truffle: From Tree To Table<\/span>, or just <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Truffles<\/span>. Anybody got any ideas?<\/p>\n<p>[Update: 9\/1\/08] I took no notice, and published anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody&#8217;s beaten me to The Truffle Book! I&#8217;m sorry if you&#8217;re offended by the word \u201cbugger\u201d. It\u2019s an everyday part of the language down here, thanks in no small part to an amusing TV ad for a farm vehicle. It is also a precise expression of my frustration at discovering that someone else has beaten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/bugger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bugger!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}