{"id":2370,"date":"2004-03-31T15:29:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T07:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/31\/pickled-dragonpublished\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:54:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:54:28","slug":"pickled-dragonpublished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/31\/pickled-dragonpublished\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickled dragon\u2026published!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11400,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/england\\\/oxfordshire\\\/3576987.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240119071350\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/england\\\/oxfordshire\\\/3576987.stm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/2\\\/hi\\\/uk_news\\\/england\\\/oxfordshire\\\/3576987.stm&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11401,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com\\\/journal\\\/2004_03_28_archive.asp#108059919929479514&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Last January, I passed on a story involving a <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/pickled_dragon_.html\" title=\"Pickled dragon found\">pickled baby dragon in a jar<\/a> that was making its way around the &#8216;net. Turns out the entire thing was a hoax&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/oxfordshire\/3576987.stm\" title=\"Book deal for dragon hoax author\">a hoax that landed the perpetrator a book deal<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  An author who was so desperate to get his book published that he staged a hoax involving a baby dragon has won a lucrative publishing contract.<\/p>\n<p>  After numerous rejections Allistair Mitchell concocted a tale that a dragon had been found in a garage last year.<\/p>\n<p>  He said: &#8220;I created the hoax in order to attract potential readers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Mr Mitchell, based in Oxford, has now signed an book deal with Waterstone&#8217;s for his book Unearthly History, a thriller featuring a dragon.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicely done!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004_03_28_archive.asp#108059919929479514\" title=\"Oh, gruntfuttocks...\">Neil Gaiman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last January, I passed on a story involving a pickled baby dragon in a jar that was making its way around the &#8216;net. Turns out the entire thing was a hoax&hellip;a hoax that landed the perpetrator a book deal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}