{"id":766,"date":"2004-03-23T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T13:42:14","slug":"766","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/23\/766\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Hear It For Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0486272745\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0486272745&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=651a8e26681c24525a3b3d70e74754dc\" target=\"_new\"><b><i>The<\/i> Prince<\/b><\/a>, that is.  By Niccolo Machiavelli.  Over at Samizdata, Andy Duncan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/005761.html\" target=\"new\">reviews the book<\/a> and approves.<\/p>\n<p>I read it in college and have based my view of foreign policy on it.  I liked it so much that I was going to name my first cat Niccolo Machiavelli (Mach for short), but I got a girl kitten instead (Dominique Francon, natch).<\/p>\n<p>On a more somber note, Andy calculates the number of books a person can read in a lifetime at 8000.  How limiting.  Especially since I am not on pace and because I already have 400 of the remainder picked out, purchased, and on my to-read shelves.  It&#8217;s like staring mortality in the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prince, that is. By Niccolo Machiavelli. Over at Samizdata, Andy Duncan reviews the book and approves. I read it in college and have based my view of foreign policy on it. I liked it so much that I was going to name my first cat Niccolo Machiavelli (Mach for short), but I got 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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22639,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/22639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}