{"id":304,"date":"2004-03-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:28","slug":"book-log-lies-and-the-lying-liars-who-tell-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished <\/p>\n<p><i>Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced look at the Right.<\/i> &#8211; Al Franken<\/p>\n<p>More interesting-funny than funny-funny, but I liked it.  It almost makes up for &#8220;Oh! The things I know!&#8221;, that piece of crap little nothing book he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to wait until it came out on paperback, but I got stuck without a book to read at lunch, and the only bookstore I was near didn&#8217;t have anything good in paperback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced look at the Right. &#8211; Al Franken More interesting-funny than funny-funny, but I liked it. It almost makes up for &#8220;Oh! The things I know!&#8221;, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=304\">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":[48],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}