{"id":273,"date":"2013-10-24T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2013-10-24T20:20:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T20:20:19","slug":"books-on-the-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/24\/books-on-the-underground\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on the Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously posted about this scheme, in which authors contribute books which are marked with a distinctive sticker and then placed for public consumption on the London Underground. Loads of people read something on the Tube, if only the free Metro newspaper, so the scheme is a great idea. Check out the website <a href=\"http:\/\/booksontheunderground.tumblr.com\/\" title=\"Books on the Underground web site\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/booksontheunderground.tumblr.com\/<\/a> for more details. Anyway, there have been two sightings of <em>In a Milk and Honeyed Land<\/em> in the last few days &#8211; at Earls Court on Monday, and Notting Hill Gate today. Let&#8217;s hope someone is enjoying the read&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Other news from the Orangeberry book tour &#8211; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An extract (first chapter) and brief description at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book-connoisseur.com\/2013\/10\/in-milk-and-honeyed-land-by-richard.html\" title=\"The Book Connoisseur extract\" target=\"_blank\">The Book Connoisseur<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An author interview and some blurb at <a href=\"http:\/\/thereadingcat.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/10\/author-interview-richard-abbott.html\" title=\"Author interview at The Reading Cat\" target=\"_blank\">The Reading Cat<\/a> &#8211; the interview has some stuff about the forthcoming <em>Scenes from a Life<\/em> as well as more general things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to come over the next few weeks&#8230; which should keep me quiet in between proof-reading and such like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously posted about this scheme, in which authors contribute books which are marked with a distinctive sticker and then placed for public consumption on the London Underground. Loads of people read something on the Tube, if only the free Metro newspaper, so the scheme is a great idea. Check out the website http:\/\/booksontheunderground.tumblr.com\/ &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/24\/books-on-the-underground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books on the Underground<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extract","category-in-a-milk-and-honeyed-land","category-interview","category-scenes-from-a-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}