{"id":27970,"date":"2021-04-01T07:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27970"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:05:31","slug":"recklessly-i-picked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/recklessly-i-picked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Recklessly, I Picked Up&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I finished reading <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/book-report-supercarrier-by-george-c-wilson-1986-1989\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Supercarrier<\/em><\/a>, and I then picked up <em>Supership<\/em>.  When I bought it <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/good-book-hunting-august-27-2007\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">in 2007<\/a>, I thought it was a novel set on a supertanker, but I have since learned it is actually a nonfiction account, sort of like <em>Supercarrier<\/em> on a tanker.<\/p>\n<p>I started reading this, and the cargo ship got stuck in the Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>So I picked up <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/31\/book-report-the-last-picture-show-by-larry-mcmurtry-1966-1979\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Last Picture Show<\/em><\/a>, and Larry McMurtry died.<\/p>\n<p>I told my beautiful wife these two events, and although she laughed, I feared my reading selections might have more power than providing me several nights&#8217; worth of reading leading to eventual, or sometimes sudden, disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe what I decide to read dictates world events.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping with my reading of novelizations or sources for movies in paperback, I picked up <em>True Lies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry; if that happens, it&#8217;s all on me.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reading of <em>David Copperfield<\/em> continues a couple chapters every couple of nights.  So far, no major mining disasters.  So maybe it really is a coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I finished reading Supercarrier, and I then picked up Supership. When I bought it in 2007, I thought it was a novel set on a supertanker, but I have since learned it is actually a nonfiction account, sort of like Supercarrier on a tanker. I started reading this, and the cargo ship got stuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970","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=27970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27971,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27970\/revisions\/27971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}