{"id":56711,"date":"2011-08-14T23:20:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/56711\/read-books\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T23:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:20:44","slug":"read-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/56711\/read-books\/","title":{"rendered":"I Still Read Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still read books.  The kind that you can read when you are away from your computer.  The kind that you can read by candle light when the power is out and no longer have internet access.<\/p>\n<p>I have changed the way I purchase books.  I have started purchasing books utilizing the links that Kevin has provided so that each book I buy will provide some support to FriendBurst.<\/p>\n<p>I recently purchased Howard Zinn&#8217;s A People&#8217;s History of the United States utilizing Kevin&#8217;s link to Amazon.  I highly recommend this book to both my liberal and conservative friends, even those libertarians.  It gives you a view of our history you never get through textbooks in schools.  He utilizes real people&#8217;s comments on various stages of our past, people who actually were alive when things happened.<\/p>\n<p>I know many of you won&#8217;t agree with his views, but his method is an improvement of the way history is written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still read books. The kind that you can read when you are away from your computer. The kind that you can read by candle light when the power is out and no longer have internet access. I have changed the way I purchase books. I have started purchasing books utilizing the links that Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,6,10,21,11,1428,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-friendburst","category-life","category-literature","category-people","category-politics-2","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}