{"id":285,"date":"2006-07-27T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T09:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2006-07-27T01:12:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T09:12:38","slug":"the-one-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"The One Book Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t tag, but I like memes. I saw this one at <a href=\"http:\/\/biblical-studies.ca\/blog\/index.php\">Codex<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>One book that changed your life:<\/b><br \/><cite>We Have Reason To Believe<\/cite> by the late Rabbi Louis Jacobs.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book that you&#8217;ve read more than once:<\/b><br \/><cite>Three Men in a Boat<\/cite> by Jerome K. Jerome.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book that you&#8217;d want on a desert island:<\/b><br \/> <cite>Midrash Tanhhuma<\/cite>.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book that made you laugh:<\/b><br \/><cite>My Family and Other Animals<\/cite> by Gerald Durrell.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book that made you cry:<\/b><br \/><cite>Tunnel in the Sky<\/cite> by Robert Heinlein.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book that you wish had been written:<\/b><br \/> A sequel to <cite>The Promise<\/cite> by Chaim Potok in which Danny makes <span lang=\"he-Latn\">aliya<\/span> to Israel. I was at a screening of <cite>The Chosen<\/cite> where Potok spoke, and he hinted that he was working on this, but I might have misinterpreted him.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book that you wish had never been written:<\/b><br \/><cite>The Da Vinci Code<\/cite>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book you&#8217;re currently reading:<\/b><br \/><cite>Blue at the Mizzen<\/cite> by Patrick O&#8217;Brian\n<\/li>\n<li><b>One book you&#8217;ve been meaning to read:<\/b><br \/>Stephen King <cite>On Writing<\/cite>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t tag, but I like memes. I saw this one at Codex. One book that changed your life:We Have Reason To Believe by the late Rabbi Louis Jacobs. One book that you&#8217;ve read more than once:Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. One book that you&#8217;d want on a desert island: Midrash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}