(This post originally appeared in August 2013 but was lost when the server was hacked in 2015. This is a recovered version.)<\/p>\n
Pirates<\/strong><\/p>\n Years and years went into that book. Each page<\/p>\n was typeset. Each word was chosen and checked.<\/p>\n Friends, strangers, family, enemies: your voices<\/p>\n are all in there. I had to publish it<\/p>\n for work, prestige, a job. The publisher<\/p>\n ate carrion, got rich, used us all. For you<\/p>\n I sought a cheap, \u2018Asian\u2019, edition and<\/p>\n the publisher held back till I called in<\/p>\n the law. And now you\u2019ve pirated my book.<\/p>\n I thank you so much. You\u2019re who it was for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (This post originally appeared in August 2013 but was lost when the server was hacked in 2015. This is a recovered version.) Pirates Years and years went into that book…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,34,3],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovered","tag-intellectual-property","tag-poem","tag-recovered"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2DSYH-pirates","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}