{"id":1673,"date":"2004-11-01T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:43:03","slug":"1673","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/01\/1673\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>MENSA Think-Smart Book<\/i> by Dr. Abbie F. Salny &#038; Leris Burke Frumkes (1986)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060912553\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0060912553&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=3b6e50272e4d36985378f5be4cec732d\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> at a yard sale some years ago and have just gotten around to it now.  It&#8217;s a thin book, 124 pages, broken into chapters that provide different puzzles\/means of cognition and intelligent ways to approach them.  Memorization tips, visual skills, and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting little book, with nice little tricks.  However, it&#8217;s not going to put me over the cusp into the warm embrace of Mensa, mostly because the book doesn&#8217;t cure lazy.  But if you&#8217;re motivated to improve your thought, it&#8217;s a quick enough read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this book at a yard sale some years ago and have just gotten around to it now. It&#8217;s a thin book, 124 pages, broken into chapters that provide different puzzles\/means of cognition and intelligent ways to approach them. Memorization tips, visual skills, and whatnot. It&#8217;s an interesting little book, with nice little tricks. [&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-1673","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\/1673","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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20853,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/20853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}