{"id":400,"date":"2007-07-26T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-04-07T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T23:20:11","slug":"last-chance-for-book-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/last-chance-for-book-selection","title":{"rendered":"Last chance for book selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly anybody has voted. As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/help_pick_the_next_book\" target=\"blog\">mentioned earlier<\/a>, I need a new book to take on vacation. Here are the choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Humane Interface by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jef_Raskin\" target=\"wikipedia\">Jef Raskin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Elegant Universe by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_Greene\" target=\"wikipedia\">Brian Greene<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Worse Than Watergate by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Dean\" target=\"wikipedia\">John Dean<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Slaughterhouse Five by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_Vonnegut\" target=\"wikipedia\">Kurt Vonnegut<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hunter_S._Thompson\" target=\"wikipedia\">Hunter S. Thompson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Metal Cowboy by Joe Kurmaskie<\/li>\n<li>Oblivion by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Foster_Wallace\" target=\"wikipedia\">David Foster Wallace<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Timeline by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Crichton\" target=\"wikipedia\">Michael Crichton<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whether you have read any of these books or not, I want your opinion on which I should or should not take. Leave your vote in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly anybody has voted. As I mentioned earlier, I need a new book to take on vacation. Here are the choices: The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene Worse Than Watergate by John Dean Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/last-chance-for-book-selection\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Last chance for book selection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[1566,352,327,355,359,354,358,353,351,357,150,356,360],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-choose","tag-crichton","tag-dean","tag-dfw","tag-greene","tag-kurmaskie","tag-raskin","tag-reading","tag-thompson","tag-vacation","tag-vonnegut","tag-vote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-6s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}