{"id":9425,"date":"2011-05-22T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T20:00:52","slug":"book-report-triviata-a-compendium-of-useless-information-compiled-by-timothy-t-fullerton-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/book-report-triviata-a-compendium-of-useless-information-compiled-by-timothy-t-fullerton-1975\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Triviata: A Compendium of Useless Information<\/i> compiled by Timothy T. Fullerton (1975)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another bulleted list of trivia items, ungrouped.  This one, though, is targeted for adults.  And in case you&#8217;re wondering, this book&#8217;s known untruth is the assertion that the Great Wall of China might be the only man-made thing visible from space.  As you and I know, 35 years after this book was published and some decade and a half after the rise of the Internet and Snopes.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/science\/greatwall.asp\" target=\"_blank\">uh, no<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t know if any of this will help me at all, if I retained any of it, but I did find something of interest in this book.  As it was written in 1975, it includes trivia about <em>cigarettes<\/em>, and they are not demonized.  Additionally, there&#8217;s a lot of trivia about tea in this book, so the knowledge of the author speaks to the things the author likes, perhaps.  I can almost picture what he looked like in 1975, swilling tea and smoking on a cigarette.  Hippie.<\/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=0805511547&#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>Here&#8217;s another bulleted list of trivia items, ungrouped. This one, though, is targeted for adults. And in case you&#8217;re wondering, this book&#8217;s known untruth is the assertion that the Great Wall of China might be the only man-made thing visible from space. As you and I know, 35 years after this book was published and [&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-9425","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\/9425","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=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}