{"id":4638,"date":"2008-10-14T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2017-05-15T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T01:50:12","slug":"book-report-myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity-by-john-stossel-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/book-report-myths-lies-and-downright-stupidity-by-john-stossel-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity<\/i> by John Stossel (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book takes on a number of media-promulgated myths and explains why most of them are false.  As a reasonable, libertarian sort of fellow myself, I already knew most of them.  The last chapter of myths covers parenting, and it&#8217;s the weakest one.  Stossel is a consumer reporter, not necessarily a parenting reporter, so the book ends on a weak note.<\/p>\n<p>Another book that goes along with what I believe, generally, so it didn&#8217;t challenge me much.  Explaining common sense to someone with some common sense ain&#8217;t riveting reading.  Sadly, like most political books, only people who agree with it will buy it\/acquire it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, since I just bought a hardback copy, I have a trade paperback to get rid of.  Call it if you want it.<\/p>\n<p><center><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=0786893931&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#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>This book takes on a number of media-promulgated myths and explains why most of them are false. As a reasonable, libertarian sort of fellow myself, I already knew most of them. The last chapter of myths covers parenting, and it&#8217;s the weakest one. Stossel is a consumer reporter, not necessarily a parenting reporter, so the [&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-4638","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\/4638","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=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16571,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/16571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}