{"id":321,"date":"2003-09-28T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:50:55","slug":"321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/28\/321\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather’s Conversion Progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suckered my beautiful wife<\/a> into going to Borders today so I could acquire a copy of Virginia Postrel<\/a>‘s The Substance of Style<\/i><\/a> (and hey, look, it’s right next to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone<\/i><\/a>, I’ll take one of those, too!).<\/p>\n

Where what to my wondering-if-I-can-snag-another-book-before-Heather-finds-me eyes appear, but Heather (which meant I could not snag another book that I needed<\/i> to put on my to-read shelves until 2012 or thereabout). And she’s carrying Laura Ingraham<\/a>‘s Shut Up and Sing<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You’ve got a book by Laura Ingraham!” I said.<\/p>\n

“Who’s she?” Heather asked.<\/p>\n

I could not explain to her that we conservatarian men have a special Hot Conservative Chick Sense<\/a> that tingles to identify attractive women who think right. I mean, sure, sometimes we get false positives (like Ann Coulter–someone feed that woman, I think she’s going mad from hunger), but for the most part, we’re dead on.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I heard her Ingraham’s radio show once.<\/p>\n

Still, Heather bought a conservative screed on her own!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suckered my beautiful wife into going to Borders today so I could acquire a copy of Virginia Postrel‘s The Substance of Style (and hey, look, it’s right next to Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone, I’ll take one of those, too!). Where what to my wondering-if-I-can-snag-another-book-before-Heather-finds-me eyes appear, but Heather (which meant I could not snag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21655,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/21655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}