{"id":2602,"date":"2008-08-06T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2008\/08\/06\/weve-been-making-our-own-all-week\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T12:38:00","slug":"weve-been-making-our-own-all-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2008\/08\/06\/weve-been-making-our-own-all-week\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve been making our own all week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.misscellania.com\/miss-cellania\/2008\/7\/9\/merged-books.html\">Miss Cellania found a Washington Post feature called Merge-Matic Books<\/a>, where two-best-sellers are mixed into one. Here&#8217;s some examples, click the link to see them all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Machiavelli&#8217;s The Little Prince&#8221; &#8211; Antoine de Saint-Exupery&#8217;s classic children&#8217;s tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is embodied in many delightful and intriguing characters, all of whom are executed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lorna Dune&#8221; &#8211; An English farmer, Paul Atreides, falls for the daughter of a notorious rival clan, the Harkonnens, and pursues a career as a giant worm jockey in order to impress her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fahrenheit 451 of the Vanities&#8221; &#8211; An &#8217;80s yuppie is denied books. He does not object, or even notice. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Planet of the Grapes of Wrath&#8221; &#8211; Astronaut lands on mysterious planet, only to discover that it is his very own home planet of Earth, which has been taken over by the Joads, a race of dirt-poor corn farmers who miraculously developed rudimentary technology and evolved the ability to speak after exposure to nuclear radiation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Cellania found a Washington Post feature called Merge-Matic Books, where two-best-sellers are mixed into one. Here&#8217;s some examples, click the link to see them all: &#8220;Machiavelli&#8217;s The Little Prince&#8221; &#8211; Antoine de Saint-Exupery&#8217;s classic children&#8217;s tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is embodied in many delightful and intriguing characters, all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2008\/08\/06\/weve-been-making-our-own-all-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We&#8217;ve been making our own all week&#8221;<\/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":[50,450,778],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amusing","tag-literary","tag-mash-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}