{"id":584,"date":"2004-02-15T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T11:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/02\/write_your_own\/"},"modified":"2004-02-15T11:36:35","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T11:36:35","slug":"write_your_own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/write_your_own\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Your Own Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/internet\/02\/14\/glitch.reveals.ap\/index.html\">staggering<\/a> news. But it seems that some authors have been writing favourable reviews of their own books on Amazon. Well there&#8217;s a thing! Who&#8217;d have thought it. And other writers are giving positive reviews to books written by friends. Well that happens all the time in the press anyway, so I wouldn&#8217;t get hung up over it.<br \/>\nIn any case, aside from technical books, why would anyone totally trust a review written by an anonymous soul? I tend to use a wider range of criteria before buying a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not exactly staggering news. But it seems that some authors have been writing favourable reviews of their own books on Amazon. Well there&#8217;s a thing! Who&#8217;d have thought it. And other writers are giving positive reviews to books written by friends. Well that happens all the time in the press anyway, so I wouldn&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}