{"id":10242,"date":"2011-10-20T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:07:51","slug":"book-report-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-special-edition-2005-by-mary-packard-and-the-editors-of-ripley-entertainment-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/20\/book-report-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-special-edition-2005-by-mary-packard-and-the-editors-of-ripley-entertainment-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not! Special Edition 2005<\/i> by Mary Packard and the Editors of Ripley Entertainment (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ripleysbelieveitornotspecialedition2005.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\">Apropos of nothing, the last book I reviewed was <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/15\/book-report-gainsborough-a-biography-by-elizabeth-ripley-1964\/\" target=\"_blank\">written by someone named Ripley about an artist<\/a>, and now I&#8217;m reporting on a book by named for a cartoonist named Ripley.  Believe it!  Or, you know, not.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you might even remember the Ripley comics in the Sunday papers, or some of you might remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083473\/\" target=\"_blank\">the television series with Jack Palance<\/a>.  If you do, you know what kinds of things you&#8217;ll find in here: just nuggets of human oddity.  This being a 21st century representation of the franchise, you get pictures and captions instead of line drawings.  I browsed it while watching a ball game, but I&#8217;m not sure I remember anything from it, so this isn&#8217;t helping me with Jeopardy! much.<\/p>\n<p>Although I did get a firm appreciation for how Ripley <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Ripley\" target=\"_blank\">parlayed a sports cartoon into a multimedia empire and museum chain<\/a> that continues 52 years after his death.<\/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=0439651913&#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>Apropos of nothing, the last book I reviewed was written by someone named Ripley about an artist, and now I&#8217;m reporting on a book by named for a cartoonist named Ripley. Believe it! Or, you know, not. Some of you might even remember the Ripley comics in the Sunday papers, or some of you might [&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-10242","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\/10242","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=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10244,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions\/10244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}