{"id":443,"date":"2008-04-02T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/04\/white-people-really-like-cash.html"},"modified":"2008-04-02T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T13:42:00","slug":"white-people-really-like-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/04\/white-people-really-like-cash.html","title":{"rendered":"White People Really Like Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Back in mid-February,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jasonboyett.com\/2008\/02\/i-am-so-white.html\">I linked<\/a> to a great new blog called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com\/\">Stuff White People Like<\/a>.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t an especially ground-breaking discovery on my part, because apparently everyone linked to the site around that same time and the blog got huge, really quick. From a few hundred hits a day in late January to hundreds of thousands by March.<\/p>\n<p>Word on the street has it that the guy behind it, Christian Lander, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecodtoday.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/03\/31\/why-blog-reason-92-to-get-a-300-000-book-1?blog=21\">just signed a reported $300,000 book deal<\/a> with Random House for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780812979916\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Stuff White People Like,<\/span> the book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Also: <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Wow. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I always say it&#8217;s hard to make much money writing books. But stories like this one &#8212; young copywriter, on a whim, decides to create a goofy satirical blog, then hits the publishing payday two months later &#8212; make me look stupid. That was the fastest and easiest rags-to-riches story I&#8217;ve heard. The guy is a talented writer for sure &#8212; and he deserves the publicity and the deal &#8212; but a six-figure advance is stunning.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I need to make this blog more anonymous, more jokey, and a bit more demographically focused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in mid-February, I linked to a great new blog called &#8220;Stuff White People Like.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t an especially ground-breaking discovery on my part, because apparently everyone linked to the site around that same time and the blog got huge, really quick. 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