{"id":447,"date":"2009-03-03T00:03:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2009-03-03T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T07:03:52","slug":"boo-to-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/03\/boo-to-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Boo to Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Amazon, Speaking as an author myself, you not only made a bad choice, you set a precedent in the wrong direction. The Author&#8217;s Guild doesn&#8217;t speak for me, nor do I want them to. TTS is only going to get <a title=\"Listen to &quot;Nina&quot; for example\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cstr.ed.ac.uk\/projects\/festival\/morevoices.html\">better<\/a>. The last thing we need is another backward industry fighting progress. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Amazon, Speaking as an author myself, you not only made a bad choice, you set a precedent in the wrong direction. The Author&#8217;s Guild doesn&#8217;t speak for me, nor do I want them to. TTS is only going to get better. The last thing we need is another backward industry fighting progress. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,33,25],"tags":[1172,653,651,652,650,1167],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-annoyance","category-ipr","tag-amazon","tag-backward","tag-festival","tag-progress","tag-tts","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-7d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}