{"id":14796,"date":"2015-10-13T05:34:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2015-10-13T05:34:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T10:34:48","slug":"book-report-whispers-of-love-by-edited-by-deborah-gaylord-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/book-report-whispers-of-love-by-edited-by-deborah-gaylord-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Whispers of Love<\/i> by edited by Deborah Gaylord (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/whispersoflove.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" hspace=\"4\"><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Internet does not know that this book exists.  <em>But it does.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a 1980 magazine or book published by Scholastic Magazines, a division of Scholastic Book Services.  It is 32 pages containing a single quote about love and a large photograph of happy 1970s people, presumably in love.  I mean, here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re working with here:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/whisper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/whisper.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this was targeted to school children.  That&#8217;s Scholastic&#8217;s ballwick, isn&#8217;t it?  Or did this appear on the drugstore shelves for a quick gift for a loved one?  Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>All I know is it took me less than an offensive series in a football game to flip through it, and I&#8217;m going to count it in my annual tally.  The book is more interesting for the photographs than the quotes, and not because the photographs are spectacular.  It&#8217;s because the photographs remind one of the 1970s, and I was alive in the 1970s, so I knew people who followed the fashion and tried to look like this.  Because it is cool.  Frankly, it&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve never followed current fashion: It leads to photos of one like these.  Also, I am cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I can&#8217;t help but wonder how many of the people from this book went home to furniture <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/book-report-easy-to-make-tables-and-chairs-1975\/\" target=\"_blank\">from this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the Internet does not know that this book exists. But it does. This is a 1980 magazine or book published by Scholastic Magazines, a division of Scholastic Book Services. It is 32 pages containing a single quote about love and a large photograph of happy 1970s people, presumably in love. I mean, here&#8217;s what [&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-14796","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\/14796","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=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14799,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions\/14799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}