{"id":317,"date":"2005-04-02T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:46:16","slug":"book-log-america-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Book Log: America (the Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>America (The Book): A Citizen&#8217;s Guide to Democracy Inaction<\/i> by the Daily Show Writers<\/p>\n<p>A parody of a textbook that really sticks it to politics in general.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\">Onion-y<\/a>, but with more actual information in it.  I&#8217;d wait for the paperback, if you haven&#8217;t read it.  Or borrow it from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America (The Book): A Citizen&#8217;s Guide to Democracy Inaction by the Daily Show Writers A parody of a textbook that really sticks it to politics in general. A little bit Onion-y, but with more actual information in it. I&#8217;d wait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=317\">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":[49],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2005"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}