{"id":13280,"date":"2015-03-12T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T23:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=13280"},"modified":"2015-03-16T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:10:08","slug":"the-most-shoplifted-author-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-most-shoplifted-author-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The most-shoplifted author in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pratchett-and-friends.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pratchett-and-friends.jpeg\" alt=\"Pratchett and friends\" width=\"615\" height=\"409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which writer whose books I have the largest number of on my shelves. It might be Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe or R.A. Lafferty. Or it might be Terry Pratchett. Pratchet, long one of my favorite writers, died today.<\/p>\n<p>There are various notices and such <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/terrypratchett\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/celebritynews\/11467688\/Sir-Terry-Pratchett-dies-aged-66.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2015\/mar\/12\/terry-pratchett-in-quotes-15-of-the-best\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-31858156\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/17\/books\/review\/terry-pratchett-by-the-book.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pratchett2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pratchett2-640x323.jpg\" alt=\"The Pratchett shelf\" width=\"640\" height=\"323\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pratchett2-640x323.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pratchett2-1024x516.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post script<\/strong>: It turns out that the quote from Death in the upper picture is <a href=\"http:\/\/neil-gaiman.tumblr.com\/post\/113671655001\/dear-neil-i-hope-youll-forgive-me-for-asking\" target=\"_blank\">one of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s contributions<\/a> to <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Good-Omens-Accurate-Prophecies-Nutter\/dp\/0060853980\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good Omens<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure which writer whose books I have the largest number of on my shelves. It might be Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe or R.A. Lafferty. Or it might be Terry Pratchett. Pratchet, long one of my favorite writers, died today. There are various notices and such here, here, here, here and here. Post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-most-shoplifted-author-in-britain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The most-shoplifted author in Britain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3sc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13320,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13280\/revisions\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}