{"id":10613,"date":"2016-06-27T07:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10613"},"modified":"2016-06-27T07:46:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T13:46:55","slug":"dear-ms-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/dear-ms-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Ms. Reader,"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear Ms. Author.<\/p>\n<p>I really like your books. I think they are well-written and I enjoyed reading them. (So far, so good, right? Hang on.) However, I have returned them all because you priced them at $0.99 to $2.99, and that is too much to pay for them. I can\u2019t afford to pay that much for a book, even though I liked it. In the future, can you make sure you make all your books free so I don\u2019t have to return them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Ms. Reader,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading my books. I appreciate your patronage. However, this is why my books are not all free:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJr2RO7g7jI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What have you done to serve your fellow man?<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n<p>Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Ms. Author. I really like your books. I think they are well-written and I enjoyed reading them. (So far, so good, right? Hang on.) However, I have returned them all because you priced them at $0.99 to $2.99, and that is too much to pay for them. I can\u2019t afford to pay that much&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/dear-ms-reader\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Ms. Reader,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1059,560,1058],"class_list":["post-10613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capitalism","tag-ebook-pricing","tag-prager-u","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2Lb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10615,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions\/10615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}