{"id":1639,"date":"2008-06-27T20:17:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2008-07-05T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T09:45:34","slug":"book-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>I am exhausted from a rather wonderful launch party last night, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/books\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11613928\">the first review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FFishing-Utopia-Sweden-Future-Disappeared%2Fdp%2F1862079951%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1213179879%26sr3D8-1&#038;tag=andrewbrownssite&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738\"><em>Fishing in Utopia<\/em> <\/a>is up, in the <em>Economist<\/em>. Very gratifying, with just the right touch of vinegar to keep it from being cloying&#8212;did you know I am given to prissy self-importance?&#8212;no, well the <em>Economist<\/em> will tell you, but also that I am the best religious journalist in England and that the book is very good, and fun. Don&#8217;t forget the fun. I hear that actually buying a copy will cause unexpected personal growth, if you do it every day for six weeks.<br \/>\nThis afternoon the <em>Sunday Times<\/em> decided it wanted an author photograph to illustrate their review.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>I am exhausted from a rather wonderful launch party last night, but the first review of Fishing in Utopia is up, in the Economist. Very gratifying, with just the right touch of vinegar to keep it from being cloying&#8212;did you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1639\">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":[5,9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}