{"id":10118,"date":"2011-10-09T08:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10118"},"modified":"2011-10-08T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T16:11:34","slug":"book-report-missouri-hard-to-believe-but-true-by-carole-marsh-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/09\/book-report-missouri-hard-to-believe-but-true-by-carole-marsh-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Missouri Hard-to-Believe-but-True!<\/i> by Carole Marsh (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/missourihardtobelievebuttrue.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">I remember reading another book in this series, and I was surprised that I bought two.  I&#8217;d have been more surprised if I had bought the second after I read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/book-report-missouri-bandits-bushwhackers-outlaws-crooks-devils-ghosts-desperadoes-by-carole-marsh-1990\/\" target=\"_blank\">Missouri Bandits, Bushwhackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, &#038; Desperadoes<\/a><\/em> earlier this year.  But I bought them both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more of the same: a couple things native to Missouri, many more things that were not native to Missouri but were instead made relevant by appending phrases like &#8220;folks in Missouri&#8221; to them, wingdings in words, and all that business.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m in a slightly more charitable mood in October than I was in January, since I will say these books might not be a complete waste of about an hour of a baseball game&#8217;s in between pitches time.  I did find at least worth investigating for a written piece.  But I won&#8217;t cite this book as a source, as you cannot take anything in it as truth.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0793306868&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember reading another book in this series, and I was surprised that I bought two. I&#8217;d have been more surprised if I had bought the second after I read Missouri Bandits, Bushwhackers, Outlaws, Crooks, Devils, Ghosts, &#038; Desperadoes earlier this year. But I bought them both at the same time. It&#8217;s more of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10121,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10118\/revisions\/10121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}