{"id":12348,"date":"2019-03-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=12348"},"modified":"2019-03-12T21:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:18:47","slug":"dear-ms-reader-blast-from-the-past-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/dear-ms-reader-blast-from-the-past-june-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Ms. Reader (Blast from the Past: June 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So 2016 isn&#8217;t that long in the past, but while reviewing my blog archive, I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10613\">this gem<\/a> and knew I just had to share it this week, especially with all the flak that capitalism has been getting from a certain former bartender recently. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Dear Ms. Author.<\/p><p>I really like your books. I think they are well-written and I enjoyed\n reading them. (So far, so good, right? Hang on.) However, I have \nreturned them all because you priced them at $0.99 to $2.99, and that is\n too much to pay for them. I can\u2019t afford to pay that much for a book, \neven though I liked it. In the future, can you make sure you make all \nyour books free so I don\u2019t have to return them?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Ms. Reader,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for reading my books. I appreciate your patronage. However, this is why my books are not free:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJr2RO7g7jI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What have you done to serve your fellow man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So 2016 isn&#8217;t that long in the past, but while reviewing my blog archive, I came across this gem and knew I just had to share it this week, especially with all the flak that capitalism has been getting from a certain former bartender recently. Enjoy! Dear Ms. Author. I really like your books. I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/dear-ms-reader-blast-from-the-past-june-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear Ms. Reader (Blast from the Past: June 2016)<\/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":[1212,1094,1059,42,414,1058],"class_list":["post-12348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aoc","tag-blast-from-the-past","tag-capitalism","tag-frustrations","tag-politics","tag-prager-u","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3da","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348","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=12348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12387,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12348\/revisions\/12387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}