{"id":4761,"date":"2009-03-02T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2017-11-02T13:43:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:43:47","slug":"book-report-well-versed-in-business-by-greg-laconte-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/02\/book-report-well-versed-in-business-by-greg-laconte-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Well Versed in Business by Greg LaConte (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a collection of lighthearted verses about the business world.  It falls somewhere between an Ogden Nash volume and <i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/30\/1100\/\" target=\"_new\">The Complete Geek (An Owner&#8217;s Manual)<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The verses are light-hearted but sometimes pointed, and unfortunately they&#8217;re not very poetic.  I mean, Ogden Nash isn&#8217;t the most poetic of authors, but he can turn a phrase that you&#8217;ll want to tweet.  But LaConte&#8217;s pieces are too earnest and common to warrant that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that long in reading, as it contains only 30 poems, and maybe you&#8217;ll find something in it you recognize if you worked in a traditionalesque corporate office environment 15 years ago.<\/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=096428720X&#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 is a collection of lighthearted verses about the business world. It falls somewhere between an Ogden Nash volume and The Complete Geek (An Owner&#8217;s Manual). The verses are light-hearted but sometimes pointed, and unfortunately they&#8217;re not very poetic. I mean, Ogden Nash isn&#8217;t the most poetic of authors, but he can turn a [&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-4761","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\/4761","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=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17163,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/17163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}