{"id":512,"date":"2012-07-16T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-07-16T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T22:04:00","slug":"back-and-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Back and Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back, after a trip that couldn&#8217;t hardly have been better.  See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.existencia.org\/pics\/main.php?g2_itemId=49953\">evidence<\/a>.  Kiev particularly deserves more visits, if you like coffee on every corner and sushi in every restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>During the trip, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/India-Travelers-Literary-Companion-Companions\/dp\/1883513243\">India: A Traveler&#8217;s Literary Companion<\/a>, a diverse collection of Indian short stories, and <i>Rich Dad, Poor Dad<\/i>, a disturbingly misleading manual on getting rich quick.<\/p>\n<p>After an NYT article (from Science Times) I read just before starting the trip, I&#8217;m trying to keep a &#8220;research journal&#8221;, and putting aside my topically organized notepads for a nicely-bound chronology.  I can&#8217;t tell yet if it&#8217;s worth the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back, after a trip that couldn&#8217;t hardly have been better. See the evidence. Kiev particularly deserves more visits, if you like coffee on every corner and sushi in every restaurant. During the trip, I read India: A Traveler&#8217;s Literary Companion, a diverse collection of Indian short stories, and Rich Dad, Poor Dad, a disturbingly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back and Books<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}