{"id":7837,"date":"2010-08-21T07:38:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=7837"},"modified":"2010-08-21T07:38:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T12:38:08","slug":"book-report-cosbyology-by-bill-cosby-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/21\/book-report-cosbyology-by-bill-cosby-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Cosbyology<\/i> by Bill Cosby (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a pretty big Cosby fan.  I just watched <em>Bill Cosby Himself<\/em> earlier in the month, I&#8217;ve listened to his old comedy albums on audiocassette during long drives, and I&#8217;ve read a number of his books before.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a short afterthought to some of his earlier works, though.  It collects a series of shorter essays and musings, some meandering.  They&#8217;re not particularly strong material, either.  A bit of amusement, but not a lot of insight.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s newer Cosby.  I&#8217;ll take it over nothing but not over his earlier works.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=078688813X\" 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>I&#8217;m a pretty big Cosby fan. I just watched Bill Cosby Himself earlier in the month, I&#8217;ve listened to his old comedy albums on audiocassette during long drives, and I&#8217;ve read a number of his books before. This book is a short afterthought to some of his earlier works, though. It collects a series of [&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-7837","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\/7837","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=7837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7839,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7837\/revisions\/7839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}