{"id":6330,"date":"2013-06-28T08:18:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T08:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2013-06-28T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T08:18:36","slug":"racist-paula-deen-surges-to-top-spot-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6330","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Racist&#8217; Paula Deen surges to top spot on Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_body\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deenbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6331\" alt=\"deenbook\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deenbook.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paula Deen&#8217;s forthcoming cookbook, <em>Paula Deen&#8217;s New Testament<\/em>, has surged past best-sellers by the likes of Dan Brown, Stephen King and <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> writer George R.R. Martin to take the top spot on Amazon&#8217;s sales charts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book charted in the 1,500s on Monday and by Wednesday it was at No. 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Southern TV cook has faced widespread outrage and dwindling endorsement deals since a deposition was released last week in which she admitted to using a racial slur for African-Americans in the past, and discussed her wish to mount a &#8220;true Southern plantation-style&#8221; wedding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scheduled to hit shelves on Oct. 15, the book is Deen&#8217;s first with Random House. Another Deen\u00a0cookbook, 2011&#8217;s <em>Paula Deen&#8217;s Southern Cooking Bible<\/em>, currently resides at No. 7 on the best-sellers list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, five of the Top 10 books on the Amazon&#8217;s movers and shakers list of books that have jumped the most in the past 24 hours are Deen-related.\u00a0 &#8211; hollywoodreporter.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Deen&#8217;s forthcoming cookbook, Paula Deen&#8217;s New Testament, has surged past best-sellers by the likes of Dan Brown, Stephen King and Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin to take the top spot on Amazon&#8217;s sales charts. The book charted in the 1,500s on Monday and by Wednesday it was at No. 18. The Southern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6330\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Racist&#8217; Paula Deen surges to top spot on Amazon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[3557,3523,3524,3558],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-amazon-to-spot","tag-paula-deen","tag-racial-slur","tag-southern-tv-cook"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/deenbook.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6333,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions\/6333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}