{"id":157,"date":"2006-12-03T18:01:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/the-times-10-best-books-of-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T18:01:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T01:01:57","slug":"the-times-10-best-books-of-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/the-times-10-best-books-of-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times 10 best books of 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Book Review has picked its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/books\/review\/20061210tenbestbooks.html\">10 best books of the year<\/a>. There aren&#8217;t really any surprises here, though I was pleased to see both Gary Shteyngart&#8217;s <em>Absurdistan<\/em> and Marisha Pessl&#8217;s <em>Special Topics in Calamity Physics<\/em> on the list. Pessl was the only first-time novelist to be included. As usual, I&#8217;m planning to read some of the books on the list, and not others. I already have the books by Shteyngart, Pessl, Rory Stewart, and Richard Ford, so I suppose those will come first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Book Review has picked its 10 best books of the year. There aren&#8217;t really any surprises here, though I was pleased to see both Gary Shteyngart&#8217;s Absurdistan and Marisha Pessl&#8217;s Special Topics in Calamity Physics on the list. Pessl was the only first-time novelist to be included. As usual, I&#8217;m planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}