{"id":556,"date":"2007-05-10T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2007\/05\/10\/fabled-daemon\/"},"modified":"2007-05-10T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T18:36:00","slug":"fabled-daemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Fabled Daemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As big a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philip-pullman.com\/\">Philip Pullman<\/a> fan as I am, I&#39;m embarrassed that it&#39;s taken me this long to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldencompassmovie.com\/\">meet my daemon<\/a>, who turns out to be&#8230; a mouse! Having read the comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbook.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/androne-here.html\">Roger Sutton&#39;s blog<\/a>&nbsp;in which so many in the book business report having (being?) ocelots, I was a bit surprised to find&nbsp;myself in the company&nbsp;of so diminutive a creature.&nbsp;Apparently, though,&nbsp;a mouse&nbsp;is the right match for&nbsp;someone &#34;modest, outgoing, competitive, spontaneous and a leader&#34; (the profile formed by my answers to the 20 daemon-pairing questions).&nbsp;Whether or not that&#39;s an accurate description of my personality, I&#39;ve already grown&nbsp;quite fond of my little whiskered friend,&nbsp;so that decides it. He&#39;s a keeper!<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"400\" width=\"450\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/goldencompassmovie.com\/goldenCompass_blog.swf?id=89870\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/goldencompassmovie.com\/goldenCompass_blog.swf?id=89870\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As big a Philip Pullman fan as I am, I&#8217;m embarrassed that it&#8217;s taken me this long to&nbsp;meet my daemon, who turns out to be&hellip; a mouse! Having read the comments on Roger Sutton&#8217;s blog&nbsp;in which so many in the book business report having (being?) ocelots, I was a bit surprised to find&nbsp;myself in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}