{"id":2404,"date":"2011-07-01T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T23:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2011-06-30T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T04:52:42","slug":"the-cover-or-the-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/07\/the-cover-or-the-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"The cover or the writing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mythical they always say to never judge a book by its cover and I think I found an example of it today.<\/p>\n<p>I found a book in a bargain bin\u00a0&#8211; I hadn&#8217;t planned buying a book today but I just can&#8217;t reists looking at a bargain bin of books&#8230; It caught my eye because it&#8217;s written by <a title=\"Pearl S Buck\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pearl_S._Buck\" target=\"_blank\">Pearl Buck<\/a> and I remember her book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clixGalore.com\/PSale.aspx?BID=75135&amp;AfID=70569&amp;AdID=8710&amp;AffDirectURL=www.thenile.com.au%2fsearch%3fs%3dthe%2bgood%2bearth&amp;LP=www.thenile.com.au\"><br \/>\nThe Good Earth<\/a>, as excellent when I read it some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I picked it up, read the blurb and though &#8216;why not?&#8217; and bought it.<\/p>\n<p>As I put it on the counter to buy it, however, I noticed the front cover for the first time. I had to double check what book it was as the cover looked like a cheesy, trashy romance novel cover &#8211; and I choose not to read such books as there are so many books I would enjoy in my limited reading time.<\/p>\n<p>If I had seen the cover first, I would not have even read the blurb to be honest, or noticed the author. So it goes to show that the cover is important for getting noticed and influencing decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Once I&#8217;ve read it, I&#8217;ll let you know if the cover or the author was a better guide to its value!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mythical they always say to never judge a book by its cover and I think I found an example of it today. I found a book in a bargain bin\u00a0&#8211; I hadn&#8217;t planned buying a book today but I just can&#8217;t reists looking at a bargain bin of books&#8230; It caught my eye because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60],"tags":[1277,1275,1276,118],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bit-off-track","category-writing","tag-author","tag-book","tag-cover","tag-value"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}