{"id":2739,"date":"2010-09-22T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2010-09-22T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:50:08","slug":"books-as-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/books-as-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Books as investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Lafferty\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laffertyexpensive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/laffertyexpensive-500x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lafferty\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2740\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does $1,186.27 look like?<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Early Lafferty\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lafferty.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lafferty-500x220.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Early Lafferty\" width=\"500\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lafferty-500x220.png 500w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lafferty-300x132.png 300w, https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lafferty.png 982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If that had been the paperback edition of <b><i>Lafferty in Orbit<\/i><\/b>, you&#8217;d be looking at $2,162.26. However, a hardcover like the one pictured is available for a mere $23.98.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Lafferty in Orbit\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lafferty2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/lafferty2-500x273.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lafferty in Orbit\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, if you ever spot any collection of Lafferty&#8217;s stories in a used book store \u2014 <b><i>Nine Hundred Grandmothers, Strange Doings, Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add, Ringing Changes, Lafferty in Orbit, Iron Tears<\/i><\/b> \u2014 grab it. There never was any other writer like him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does $1,186.27 look like? If that had been the paperback edition of Lafferty in Orbit, you&#8217;d be looking at $2,162.26. However, a hardcover like the one pictured is available for a mere $23.98. By the way, if you ever spot any collection of Lafferty&#8217;s stories in a used book store \u2014 Nine Hundred Grandmothers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/books-as-investments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books as investments&#8221;<\/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":[7,33],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-weird-world-web","tag-r-a-lafferty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Ib","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","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=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}