{"id":518,"date":"2008-02-28T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/are-women-human\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T03:14:17","slug":"are-women-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/books\/are-women-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Are women human?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s just one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/53656-oddest-book-titles-prize-shortlist-announced.html\" title=\"odd titles prize\" target=\"_blank\">the titles shortlisted for <em>The Bookseller<\/em>&#8216;s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year<\/a>. The full list of candidates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I Was Tortured By the Pygmy Love Queen<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How to Write a How to Write Book<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Cheese Problems Solved<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>People who Mattered in Southend and Beyond: From King Canute to Dr Feelgood<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Bookseller<\/em> is a a British magazine. This is the first I&#8217;ve heard of this prize, but apparently it has been awarded since 1978. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/the-plight-of-independent-book-publishing-part-1\/\" title=\"conglomerates take over the publishing industry\">The corporate takeover of publishing<\/a> has not removed all of the quirkiness from the industry.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s just one of the titles shortlisted for The Bookseller&#8216;s Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. The full list of candidates: I Was Tortured By&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}