{"id":1253,"date":"2010-07-01T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:41:24","slug":"book-log-a-fictional-history-of-the-united-states-with-huge-chunks-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing)<\/i> by T Cooper and Adam Mansbach<\/p>\n<p>Essentially this is a collection of short stories with a half-hearted attempt to sprinkle them throughout United States historical periods.<\/p>\n<p>Like most collections, there were some good, some amusing, some meh.  Nothing I would go out of my way to recommend to anyone.  I don&#8217;t remember why I put this on my wishlist, but I got it through PaperBackSwap.com, so it wasn&#8217;t very expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing) by T Cooper and Adam Mansbach Essentially this is a collection of short stories with a half-hearted attempt to sprinkle them throughout United States historical periods. Like most collections, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[494,457],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}