{"id":408,"date":"2006-05-02T08:38:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=408"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:31:10","slug":"the-scandal-that-keeps-on-scandaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/the-scandal-that-keeps-on-scandaling\/","title":{"rendered":"The scandal that keeps on scandaling"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess if you’re going to plagiarize, you might as well plagiarize from more than one book.<\/p>\n

The Harvard Crimson<\/em> is now reporting it’s found passages from Kaavya Viswanathan’s novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life<\/a>” that were lifted from Meg Cabot’s “The Princess Diaries”<\/a> and Salman Rushdi’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories<\/a>“\u009d(!!!).<\/p>\n

And The New York Times<\/em> (registration required) has published a piece reporting similarities between passages in Viswanathan’s book and passages in “Can You Keep a Secret?” by Sophie Kinsella.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t a novel. It was a fricking medley.<\/p>\n

(I previously blogged about this here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess if you’re going to plagiarize, you might as well plagiarize from more than one book. The Harvard Crimson is now reporting it’s found passages from Kaavya Viswanathan’s novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a … Continue reading →<\/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":[9,3],"tags":[1013,1012,1010,1035,1011,1036,1037,241],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-book-packagers","tag-book-publishing","tag-kaavya-viswanathan","tag-meg-cabot","tag-plagiarism-scandal","tag-salman-rushdi","tag-sophie-kinsella","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}