{"id":3044,"date":"2013-02-26T22:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2013\/02\/26\/its-only-the-first-part\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T22:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:21:34","slug":"its-only-the-first-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"its-only-the-first-part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fact that I have too many books.  My Kindle has opened this vast world of literature, and I&#8217;m buying way more books than actually reading them, and I want to read them all.  Except maybe the trilogies.  Apparently, the &#8216;it&#8217; thing to do these days is write a trilogy.  There may not even be enough story for a three parter, but that&#8217;s not the point.  Hook someone in with the first part, and the other two will be bought up come premiere day.  And that&#8217;s the most frustrating thing of all.  I&#8217;m not the type to read a book and patiently wait for the next two.  No.  I snap them all up if I can, and maybe later find out that I&#8217;ve regretted doing so.  Because it&#8217;s a fact that if the first book sucks, the other two are sure to follow.<\/p>\n<p>And everyone seems to be writing trilogies, but I just want a measly stand alone novel.  A very well written, blow me away story, told in a couple hundred pages or less.  No to be continued or senseless cliffhangers.  Just a beginning, middle, and end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fact that I have too many books. My Kindle has opened this vast world of literature, and I&#8217;m buying way more books than actually reading them, and I want to read them all. Except maybe the trilogies. Apparently, the &#8216;it&#8217; thing to do these days is write a trilogy. There may not even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}