{"id":9422,"date":"2011-05-25T07:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T12:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2011-05-22T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T19:53:44","slug":"book-report-bite-size-history-by-hugh-westrup-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/25\/book-report-bite-size-history-by-hugh-westrup-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Bite Size History<\/i> by Hugh Westrup (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first book of trivia-stuff or fact-review things I picked up for my upcoming June adventure, and I chose wisely.  If I was looking for a quick read, this juvenile book is it.  I should start checking publishers so I don&#8217;t get snookered by Scholastic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a quick bit of paragraphs with history vignettes \/ trivium in it, but it&#8217;s not without some trepidation.  Any time you run into something in a book that you know is not true, particularly in a trivia book, you have to wonder if <em>any<\/em> of it is true.  In this particular book, the author explains that the origin of the term &#8220;jeep&#8221; is that soldiers named it after the Popeye cartoon character.  Well, that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeep#Origin_of_the_name\" target=\"_blank\">one theory of many<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, if anything in here stuck in my head, hopefully it&#8217;s the right questions.<\/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=0439147034&#038;ref=tf_til&#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 is the first book of trivia-stuff or fact-review things I picked up for my upcoming June adventure, and I chose wisely. If I was looking for a quick read, this juvenile book is it. I should start checking publishers so I don&#8217;t get snookered by Scholastic. It&#8217;s a quick bit of paragraphs with history [&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-9422","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\/9422","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=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9424,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}