{"id":4670,"date":"2008-11-17T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2017-11-01T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T22:14:52","slug":"book-report-the-explainer-by-the-writers-at-slate-magazine-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/book-report-the-explainer-by-the-writers-at-slate-magazine-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Explainer by the Writers at Slate Magazine (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book collects a number of questions covered in Slate&#8217;s &#8220;The Explainer&#8221; column and groups them by some sort of similarity.  It&#8217;s better than <i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/book-report-the-best-of-slate-a-10th-anniversary-anthology-edited-by-david-plotz-2006\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Best of Slate<\/a><\/i> as far as collections go, but it&#8217;s not &#8220;The Straight Dope&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Worth a buck, I suppose.  If you will have any to spare in the upcoming <strike>Obama\/Pelosi\/Reid<\/strike> <b>Bush depression (overtime)<\/b>.<\/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=1400034264&#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><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book collects a number of questions covered in Slate&#8217;s &#8220;The Explainer&#8221; column and groups them by some sort of similarity. It&#8217;s better than The Best of Slate as far as collections go, but it&#8217;s not &#8220;The Straight Dope&#8221;. Worth a buck, I suppose. If you will have any to spare in the upcoming Obama\/Pelosi\/Reid [&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-4670","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\/4670","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=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17099,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/17099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}