{"id":3112,"date":"2012-05-01T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/01\/a-decision-on-50-shades"},"modified":"2012-05-01T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:44:00","slug":"a-decision-on-50-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=3112","title":{"rendered":"A decision on 50 Shades&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve spent the better part of the last two days in a constant state of combined anger, offense, and just general &#8220;oh my god, people are talking about me, and I don&#8217;t know how to handle it&#8221; stress. I want to make it clear that just someone saying, &#8220;shut up, I don&#8217;t like what you&#8217;re saying,&#8221; would never stop me from speaking my mind. That has never been the issue here. What <i>was<\/i>\u00a0the issue was that another author was getting caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I think now, though, it&#8217;s pretty clear that I am Jennifer ArmINtrout, author of books written for a mostly adult audience, in an adult genre, and not a similarly named author who writes fiction for Young Adults. I&#8217;ve tweeted, I&#8217;ve blogged, I&#8217;ve done what I can to clear up the confusion, and I think that at this point the people who still don&#8217;t get it will never get it. I assume these are the same people who confuse Steve Martin with Steve Martini and Anne Rice with Luanne Rice. Sometimes, there is just no educating people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, with that in mind, chapter nine will post tomorrow. It&#8217;s your\u00a0prerogative as a reader whether or not my abominable behavior will influence your buying habits. I can&#8217;t control you, you can&#8217;t control me, so long as we&#8217;re both clear on this, things should be nothin&#8217; but a field of daisies from here on out, right?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>See y&#8217;all bright and early tomorrow, since I&#8217;ve been kicked out of the Sunshine Sisterhood anyway and my mornings are free.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve spent the better part of the last two days in a constant state of combined anger, offense, and just general &#8220;oh my god,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=3112\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A decision on 50 Shades&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}