{"id":34274,"date":"2017-10-11T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34274"},"modified":"2017-09-30T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T14:05:17","slug":"qotd-speed-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/qotd-speed-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Speed readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; shut up, speed readers. That\u2019s right. I said eight hours. Deal with it. Nobody cares that you read 6,000 WPM like some sort of freaky robot person. Most people read for fun at 200 WPM and most books are 100k words. I swear, I\u2019ve never in my life mentioned that it takes hours to read a novel without some self-righteous speed reader chiming in the comments about how brilliant they are and how they read a novel every fifteen minutes. Goody for you. Those of us who\u2019ve known the touch of a woman don\u2019t care you read fast.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Correia, <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterhunternation.com\/2016\/02\/16\/one-star-reviews-over-book-prices-are-dumb\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;one Star Reviews Over Book Prices are Dumb&#8221;, <em>Monster Hunter Nation<\/em><\/a>, 2016-02-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; shut up, speed readers. That\u2019s right. I said eight hours. Deal with it. Nobody cares that you read 6,000 WPM like some sort of freaky robot person. Most people read for fun at 200 WPM and most books are 100k words. I swear, I\u2019ve never in my life mentioned that it takes hours to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[32,57,41],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-34274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-criticism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8UO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34275,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34274\/revisions\/34275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}