{"id":10527,"date":"2013-09-10T07:59:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2013-09-10T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:59:46","slug":"todays-fun-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-fun-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s fun fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/358039\/potus-and-pop-culture-interview?splash=\" target=\"_blank\">Jefferson famously said, \u201cI cannot live without books,\u201d and he lived accordingly. He collected thousands of books at a time when it was extremely expensive to do so. A new edition of Adam Smith\u2019s <b>The Wealth of Nations<\/b> in 1776 cost about as much as an iPad costs today<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can buy a new paperback edition of Smith&#8217;s book for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Wealth-Nations-Bantam-Classics\/dp\/0553585975\/\" target=\"_blank\">$7.19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/17083\" target=\"_blank\">Today&#8217;s fun quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The book most fibbed about, says the survey, is George Orwell\u2019s <b>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/b>, which seems forgivable in these Orwellian times: apart from some character names, reading the news is almost exactly like reading the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson famously said, \u201cI cannot live without books,\u201d and he lived accordingly. He collected thousands of books at a time when it was extremely expensive to do so. A new edition of Adam Smith\u2019s The Wealth of Nations in 1776 cost about as much as an iPad costs today. You can buy a new paperback &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-fun-fact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s fun fact&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2JN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}