{"id":42790,"date":"2014-04-03T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42790"},"modified":"2014-04-03T07:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T12:30:20","slug":"publishing-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42790","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we wait for further news on Katie Kieffer&#8217;s first book &#8211; of which more to come soon &#8211; I&#8217;m happy to notice that XKCD is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xkcd.com\/2014\/03\/12\/what-if-i-wrote-a-book\/\">publishing a book this fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions\u00a0will be published September 2nd\u00a0by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Starting today\u00a0you can pre-order it from your favorite bookseller (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/what-if-serious-scientific-answers-to-absurd-hypothetical-questions-randall-munroe\/1118864093?ean=9780544272996\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-If-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions\/dp\/0544272994\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1394474740&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=what+if%3F%2C+munroe\">Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780544272996\">Indie Bound<\/a>).\u00a0 There are also foreign editions,\u00a0including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/What-If-Randall-Munroe\/dp\/1848549571\/\">UK and Commonwealth edition<\/a>\u00a0and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/What-w%C3%A4re-wenn-wissenschaftliche-hypothetische\/dp\/3813506525\/\">German edition<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like my next couple of airplane trips are covered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we wait for further news on Katie Kieffer&#8217;s first book &#8211; of which more to come soon &#8211; I&#8217;m happy to notice that XKCD is publishing a book this fall. Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions\u00a0will be published September 2nd\u00a0by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Starting today\u00a0you can pre-order it from your favorite bookseller (Barnes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42807,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42790\/revisions\/42807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}