{"id":243,"date":"2014-02-13T03:47:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2014-02-13T03:47:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T03:47:36","slug":"big-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Big in Britain!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curiously, starting six months ago, United Kingdom sales of <a title=\"The Alpha And The Omega\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/?page_id=10\"><i>The Alpha And The Omega<\/i> (<i>A&amp;O<\/i>)<\/a> caught up with United States sales.\u00a0 And lately, UK sales have <i>exceeded<\/i> US sales.\u00a0 What makes this remarkable is that the UK has 1\/5 the population of the US.\u00a0 Hence, per capita, I\u2019m selling five times as many books in the UK than in the US.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m big in Britain!<\/p>\n<p>And much like Jerry Lewis\u2019 fame in France, or David Hasselhoff\u2019s popularity in Germany, I can\u2019t explain it.\u00a0 If anything, I\u2019d think a story about Biblical end times occurring in modern day would be a larger draw in fundamental Christian America than in secular Britain.\u00a0 (Then again, I haven\u2019t gauged the UK\u2019s religious climate firsthand since I never visited the country, a deficiency I plan to remedy in the very near future.)<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re a British reader, please enlighten me to why <i>A&amp;O<\/i> is so (relatively) popular across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiously, starting six months ago, United Kingdom sales of The Alpha And The Omega (A&amp;O) caught up with United States sales. And lately, UK sales have exceeded US sales. What makes this remarkable is that the UK has 1\/5 the population of the US. Hence, per capita, I\u2019m selling five times as many books in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.undergroundmediaware.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}