{"id":1441883,"date":"2019-12-09T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1441883"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:40:53","slug":"5-famous-authors-who-got-away-with-writing-the-same-story-over-and-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-famous-authors-who-got-away-with-writing-the-same-story-over-and-over-again\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Famous Authors Who Just Wrote the Same Book Over and Over Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/aug9messeduprelationshipssMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you ever find yourself telling the same story over and over again? I know I do. Unfortunately, &#8220;that one time I got locked in a Dairy Queen on a date&#8221; is always a big conversational hit, so I don&#8217;t see myself stopping any time soon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And anyway, I&#8217;m not getting paid to tell it. (I should, though! It&#8217;s a really good story! Has a 30% laugh rate!) The following authors <em>were<\/em> getting paid, which means publishers were basically shelling out cash just so these guys could write the exact same book multiple times, and we all just <em>let them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever find yourself telling the same story over and over again? I know I do. Unfortunately, &#8220;that one time I got locked in a Dairy Queen on a date&#8221; is always a big   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[11354,628,2551,7064,772,25017,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441883"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441896,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441883\/revisions\/1441896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}