{"id":14811,"date":"2025-07-24T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?p=14811"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:49:13","slug":"unable-to-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/unable-to-even\/","title":{"rendered":"I am unable to even"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"top20\">\n<div class=\"center\">When you say stupid shit and read it back almost 2 decades later when you\u2019re cleaning up your blog<br \/>\nPart 4 of a series<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/an-ebook-is-not-a-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">An ebook is not a book.<br \/>\n11\/15\/2009<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhile I\u2019m cleaning up my blog, I come across this little nugget: \u201cAn ebook is not a book,\u201d and I wonder to myself, \u201cWhose idiotic opinion was I skewering that day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scifi author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cantalibre.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graham Storrs<\/a> said in the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seems to me that an e-book is a book in every way that counts. What people mean when they say \u2018book\u2019 is the content it contains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have no defense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/never-apologize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2190&nbsp;Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n<p class=\"right\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Part 5&nbsp;\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you say stupid shit and read it back almost 2 decades later when you\u2019re cleaning up your blog Part 4 of a series An ebook is not a book. 11\/15\/2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-stupid-shit-i-said-a-long-time-ago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14811"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23833,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14811\/revisions\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}