{"id":3760,"date":"2009-06-13T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/13\/my-life-is-weird\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T09:57:46","slug":"my-life-is-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/13\/my-life-is-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life Is Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&#038;field-keywords=chad+orzel&#038;x=0&#038;y=0\">search Amazon for my name<\/a>, you get four results: the book-in-production, two books where I&#8217;m mentioned in the acknowledgments, and a fourth book where I am apparently cited as a source for the &#8220;assume a spherical cow&#8221; joke.<\/p>\n<p>2) Weirdly, I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.blogspot.com\/\">fan site<\/a>, of sorts. I have no idea who&#8217;s responsible for that.<\/p>\n<p>3) The publicity copy on the inside cover of the bound galleys starts out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the <cite>New York Times<\/cite> bestselling tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plato-Platypus-Walk-into-Understanding\/dp\/0143113879\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1244898377&#038;sr=1-1\"><cite>Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar<\/cite><\/a>, author Chad Orzel uses the seemingly ordinary&#8211; a family pet&#8211; to explore and explain the complex and deeply cool world of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, yeah: we have bound galleys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-14b9727ab8ebb8236a5acb08dcc21a51-med_bound_galley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-9ce0a2e29281cdf97e9a0c5e2306dc75-sm_bound_galley.jpg\" alt=\"i-9ce0a2e29281cdf97e9a0c5e2306dc75-sm_bound_galley.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woo-hoo! Real book-looking book-type things!<\/p>\n<p>Emmy thinks they need some seasoning&#8211; a little cheese, a little bacon, something&#8211; but she got some treats, so it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) If you search Amazon for my name, you get four results: the book-in-production, two books where I&#8217;m mentioned in the acknowledgments, and a fourth book where I am apparently cited as a source for the &#8220;assume a spherical cow&#8221; joke. 2) Weirdly, I have a fan site, of sorts. I have no idea who&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/06\/13\/my-life-is-weird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Life Is Weird<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,20,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-dog","category-publicity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}