{"id":25534,"date":"2020-01-16T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T18:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25534"},"modified":"2020-01-14T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:50:32","slug":"book-report-the-yogi-book-by-yogi-berra-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/book-report-the-yogi-book-by-yogi-berra-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>The Yogi Book<\/i> by Yogi Berra (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/theyogibook.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">I got this book <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/03\/good-book-hunting-saturday-november-2-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in November<\/a> (I have read two of those five books so far, but I have been to ABC Books since then, so no rush to read them all soon).  When I was looking for something else this weekend, I found the book and wondered where I&#8217;d gotten it and how long it had been on the shelves.  Not long, a quick search of this blog reveals.  Which is why I have this blog: to help me remember.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, this collection is not as deep and dense as even <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/02\/book-report-when-you-come-to-a-fork-in-the-road-take-it-by-yogi-berra-with-dave-kaplan-2001\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It!<\/em><\/a>.  Instead, it&#8217;s a collection of quotes from Berra, one per page, with photos from his life and captions that explain the photo, the quote, or both.  So I was able to browse it easily during playoff football games and following.  Which was nice.<\/p>\n<p>A pleasant enough browse and read if you&#8217;re into Berraiana.  Which, apparently, I am.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this book in November (I have read two of those five books so far, but I have been to ABC Books since then, so no rush to read them all soon). When I was looking for something else this weekend, I found the book and wondered where I&#8217;d gotten it and how long [&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-25534","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\/25534","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=25534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25535,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25534\/revisions\/25535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}