{"id":252,"date":"2006-03-09T08:45:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=252"},"modified":"2020-01-02T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T16:58:11","slug":"scoundrel-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/scoundrel-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoundrel Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksquare.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/08\/1850\/\">Booksquare<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3617jOK\"><em>The Da Vinci Code <\/em><\/a>trial (which <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/somebody-stole-their-architecture\/\">I blogged about previously here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]e do appreciate the fact that the British taxpayers are covering the costs for the most intriguing marketing campaign of the season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sales of the plaintiffs&#8217; book, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MCtT8O\"><em>Holy Blood, Holy Grail<\/em><\/a>, are way up, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I detect a categorical similarity to the <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/crime-pays-lol\/\">post-Oprah James Frey bump<\/a>. And I furthermore suggest all writers immediately consider ways they can grab headlines, post-publication, through a lurid public display of their baser natures.<\/p>\n<p>UPATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/free-to-code-again\/\">suit dismissed.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Booksquare, on The Da Vinci Code trial (which I blogged about previously here): [W]e do appreciate the fact that the British taxpayers are covering the costs for the most intriguing marketing campaign of the season. Sales of the plaintiffs&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/scoundrel-marketing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,3],"tags":[731,733,734,730,735,732,736],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pop-culture","category-writing","tag-dan-brown","tag-lawsuit","tag-michael-baigent","tag-plagiarism","tag-richard-leigh","tag-the-da-vinci-code","tag-the-holy-blood-and-the-holy-grail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5761,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/5761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}