{"id":179,"date":"2009-07-29T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T02:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-07-29T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T02:21:57","slug":"discovering-new-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/discovering-new-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering new authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throwing this out there: When you read a book by an author you were previously unfamiliar with, and love it, do you immediately track down everything else they&#8217;ve written and read as much of it as you can get your hands on?  Or to you spread it out slowly to savor it (or, from a more pessimistic standpoint, to avoid getting sick of it)?  Or does it hardly affect whether or not you&#8217;ll pick something up by the same author, because you find your likes aren&#8217;t really that consistent?<\/p>\n<p>My instinct usually is to do the first, but my budget means it ends up looking more like the second.  And sadly, I maybe should follow the third to some extent&#8211;when I fall in love with the first book I&#8217;ve read by an author, I rarely enjoy any others quite as much. <\/p>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwing this out there: When you read a book by an author you were previously unfamiliar with, and love it, do you immediately track down everything else they&#8217;ve written and read as much of it as you can get your &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/discovering-new-authors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}