{"id":19882,"date":"2018-05-24T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19882"},"modified":"2018-05-22T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T21:42:53","slug":"book-report-pocket-quips-by-robert-c-savage-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/book-report-pocket-quips-by-robert-c-savage-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Pocket Quips<\/i> by Robert C. Savage (1986)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/pocketquips.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This book is a small collection of quips, anecdotes, and aphorisms collected by a pastor, presumably for sprinking in sermons and whatnot.  As such, it&#8217;s chock full of faith-based meditations, brief meditations, on grace, hope, love, and morality, but it also has some secular bits, too.  It&#8217;s not <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/book-report-poor-richards-almanack-benjamin-franklins-best-sayings-edited-by-dean-walley-1967\/\" target=\"_new\">Poor Richard&#8217;s Almanack<\/em><\/a>, but it&#8217;s not supposed to be.  It&#8217;s a step up from Hallmark compilations, but that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, though, the Grain of Salt (GoS, a term I shall use henceforth) is high, as one of his entries on Kindergarten is &#8220;(A child&#8217;s definition.)  Kindergarten is &#8216;a garden full of children.'&#8221;  Maybe not everyone is from Milwaukee, where the first kindergarten was formed\/held\/enschooled, or fluent in German, but kindergarten <em>literally<\/em> means the children&#8217;s garden.  I used to say this in a dramatic voice when dropping my children off when my youngest was in kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>Man, that was a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0842349049&#038;asins=0842349049&#038;linkId=a21615354e7267c3488f6cc15375c087&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a small collection of quips, anecdotes, and aphorisms collected by a pastor, presumably for sprinking in sermons and whatnot. As such, it&#8217;s chock full of faith-based meditations, brief meditations, on grace, hope, love, and morality, but it also has some secular bits, too. It&#8217;s not Poor Richard&#8217;s Almanack, but it&#8217;s not supposed [&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-19882","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\/19882","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=19882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19883,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19882\/revisions\/19883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}