{"id":4424,"date":"2008-05-09T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2016-09-14T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:20:21","slug":"book-report-an-altogether-new-book-of-top-ten-lists-by-david-letterman-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/book-report-an-altogether-new-book-of-top-ten-lists-by-david-letterman-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: An Altogether New Book of Top Ten Lists by David Letterman (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as though it&#8217;s been four and a half years since I read the first <i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/22\/7348\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book of Lists<\/a><\/i>, and what a four years it has been.  Punchlines about Iraq and President Bush, written in 1990 about a different set of circumstances, still cause one to do a doubletake.<\/p>\n<p>Like the other book, the best lists are on topics that aren&#8217;t dated; the ones that are, I can appreciate for the historical\/nostalgic value and get some of the humor from them, but they&#8217;re not going to last long.  Of course, you can get these lists on the Internet now, but when has free availability online ever stopped me for spending a buck or less for a paper copy?<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0671749013&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as though it&#8217;s been four and a half years since I read the first Book of Lists, and what a four years it has been. Punchlines about Iraq and President Bush, written in 1990 about a different set of circumstances, still cause one to do a doubletake. Like the other book, the best [&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-4424","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\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15631,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/15631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}