{"id":3789,"date":"2008-12-14T03:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T03:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/14\/mixed-blessings\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T03:32:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T03:32:42","slug":"mixed-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/14\/mixed-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arthurmag.com\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/arthur32.jpg\" alt=\"arthur32.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Arthur<\/em> #32 is now out with a great cover. As usual you can download it from <a href=\"http:\/\/arthurmag.com\/issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">the <em>Arthur<\/em> site<\/a>. Unfortunately that&#8217;s the only way you&#8217;ll be able to get hold of this issue since the paper copy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/magpie\/?p=3433\" target=\"_blank\">won&#8217;t be printing<\/a>. <em>Arthur<\/em> still needs your support, however, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/subscribe\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">subscriptions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/donate\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">donations<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/advertising\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">advertising<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t wasted all your money helping investment bankers hang on to their bonuses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/31106265@N00\/3102595149\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/shriek.jpg\" alt=\"shriek.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the upside, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/a> notified me that <em>Shriek: An Afterword<\/em>, the novel of his which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/shriek.html\" target=\"_blank\">I designed earlier this year<\/a>, has arrived from the printer and should be shipping forthwith. Read more about that (and order a copy) <a href=\"http:\/\/wyrmpublishing.com\/catalog\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=1&amp;products_id=17\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/02\/05\/fungal-observations\/\">Fungal observations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur #32 is now out with a great cover. As usual you can download it from the Arthur site. Unfortunately that&#8217;s the only way you&#8217;ll be able to get hold of this issue since the paper copy won&#8217;t be printing. Arthur still needs your support, however, via subscriptions, donations and\/or advertising if you haven&#8217;t wasted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/12\/14\/mixed-blessings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mixed blessings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,21,43,23],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-fantasy","category-magazines","category-work","tag-jeff-vandermeer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-Z7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}