{"id":1016,"date":"2004-06-02T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2009-04-05T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T19:52:26","slug":"recently-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2004\/06\/02\/recently-read-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently read"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/books\/stiff.html\">Stiff &#8211; Mary Roach<\/a><br \/>\n303 pages<br \/>\npublished in 2003\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhat happens to your body after you die? Mary Roach explores the options when you donate<br \/>\nyour body to science. Nicely macaber and interesting without being too gross.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/books\/demon-in-the-freezer.html\">The Demon in the Freezer<\/a> &#8211; Richard Preston<br \/>\n240 pages<br \/>\npublished in 2002\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWritten shortly after the Anthrax attacks on Tom Daschle and other Democrats and several<br \/>\n&#8220;liberal&#8221; media figures, this is about a far more frightening prospect: smallpox. Richard Preston<br \/>\ntraces the story of how smallpox got eradicated in nature, but still exists in storage in the US<br \/>\nand Russia and unfortunately, probably also elsewhere.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDark Life &#8211; Michael Ray Taylor<br \/>\n287 pages<br \/>\npublished in 1999\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSort of a weird counterpart to <cite>The Demon in the Freezer<\/cite>, this is a book written<br \/>\nby a caver\/journalist who got involved in the search to socalled dark life; subterran life beyond<br \/>\nthe boundaries of known life. It largely revolves around the discovery of fossilised nanobacteria<br \/>\nin a Martian meteorite and the discovery of terran equivalents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stiff &#8211; Mary Roach 303 pages published in 2003 What happens to your body after you die? Mary Roach explores the options when you donate your body to science. Nicely macaber and interesting without being too gross. The Demon in the Freezer &#8211; Richard Preston 240 pages published in 2002 Written shortly after the Anthrax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[2443,2444],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","tag-book-review","tag-posts-interesting-only-to-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}