{"id":2432,"date":"2016-02-07T23:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T23:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2016-02-07T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T23:25:22","slug":"book-log-8-lafayette-in-the-somewhat-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #8 &#8211; Lafayette in the Somewhat United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lafayette in the Somewhat United States<\/em> by Sarah Vowell [<em>Kindle, Amazon<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>I love me some Sarah Vowell.  She can do no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>No one else tells history in such an engaging and entertaining way.<\/p>\n<p>I told my kids the story of how America almost didn&#8217;t happen because of a bad production of <em>The Barber of Seville<\/em>.  And the kids go, why don&#8217;t they tell those stories in history class?!  And I&#8217;m like, I KNOW RIGHT?<\/p>\n<p>Read all the Sarah Vowell you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell [Kindle, Amazon] I love me some Sarah Vowell. She can do no wrong. No one else tells history in such an engaging and entertaining way. I told my kids the story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2432\">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":[512,513,510],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}