{"id":784,"date":"2008-04-09T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/today-is-the-day-i-guess-i-get-kicked-off-the-nyt-bestseller-list\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T14:11:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T19:11:26","slug":"today-is-the-day-i-guess-i-get-kicked-off-the-nyt-bestseller-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/today-is-the-day-i-guess-i-get-kicked-off-the-nyt-bestseller-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Today is the day I guess I get kicked off the NYT bestseller list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Wednesday afternoons, the NYT bestsellers are revealed. Today the list comes out for the  the week closing Saturday, April 5, and I think after a happy three-week run, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles will fall off the extended list.<\/p>\n<p>After popping in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/30\/books\/bestseller\/0330besthardnonfiction.html\">#26<\/a> during my second week of publication, the last two weeks, I have squeaked in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/06\/books\/bestseller\/0406besthardnonfiction.html\">#34<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/13\/books\/bestseller\/0413besthardnonfiction.html\">#33<\/a> without expecting to make it. So I feel like the girl who got the surprise bronze medal (who is generally happier than the person who gets the unexpected silver medal, except for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Wylie\">Paul Wylie<\/a> in 1992, the happiest silver medal).<\/p>\n<p>The burst of April books is likely to push it off, plus I can sense from my Amazon ranking it&#8217;s slowing, but not too badly, just enough to tip it over. Fortune Cookie Chronicles is just chugging along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Wednesday afternoons, the NYT bestsellers are revealed. Today the list comes out for the the week closing Saturday, April 5, and I think after a happy three-week run, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles will fall off the extended list. After popping in at #26 during my second week of publication, the last two weeks, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-cE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}