{"id":1080,"date":"2010-03-30T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2010-03-30T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:05:09","slug":"syd-barrett-book-in-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/03\/syd-barrett-book-in-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Syd Barrett book in development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. publisher<strong> Essential Works <\/strong>is planning to publish a high-end, hardcover book devoted to <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Barrett,&#8221; to be published as a small run and sold primarily via the Web, will focus on the &#8220;creative life&#8221; of the once-Floyd frontman. It&#8217;ll include more than 100 images, more than half of which have never before been published.<\/p>\n<p>The company has set up a registration area at its Web site to gauge interest in the project. &#8220;We need people to register so that we know there&#8217;s enough interest out there,&#8221; according to Essential Works&#8217; <strong>Russell Beecher<\/strong>. The volume of registrations will determine whether the project moves forward.<\/p>\n<p>If it does, publication is expected in the fall for a price of about \u00c2\u00a360, plus delivery. A percentage of all sales will go to the Syd Barrett Estate, which has authorized the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrettbook.com\/\">Learn more and register your interest at the Web site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. publisher Essential Works is planning to publish a high-end, hardcover book devoted to Syd Barrett. &#8220;Barrett,&#8221; to be published as a small run and sold primarily via the Web, will focus on the &#8220;creative life&#8221; of the once-Floyd frontman. It&#8217;ll include more than 100 images, more than half of which have never before been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-merchandise","category-personnel","category-syd-barrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}