{"id":217,"date":"2005-07-24T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/weekly-summaries-july-17\/"},"modified":"2005-07-24T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T21:33:00","slug":"weekly-summaries-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/weekly-summaries-july-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0684807610\/qid=1122215165\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1\/103-7864101-7275836?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">Walter Isaacson&#8217;s biography of Benjamin Franklin<\/a> (abridged and read by Boyd Gaines) on the way back. It&#8217;s very favorable &#8212; I suppose it&#8217;s hard to find bad things to say about Franklin, though Isaacson gives a chapter at the end to those who tried &#8212; though I&#8217;d like to hear what John Adams had to say about their time in France together. Next time I need a tape I&#8217;ll see if the library has a bio on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished Walter Isaacson&#8217;s biography of Benjamin Franklin (abridged and read by Boyd Gaines) on the way back. It&#8217;s very favorable &#8212; I suppose it&#8217;s hard to find bad things to say about Franklin, though Isaacson gives a chapter at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/weekly-summaries-july-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}