{"id":180,"date":"2007-01-09T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gen-o.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/mondays-mayhem\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T09:54:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T16:54:41","slug":"mondays-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/mondays-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8217;s mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Joan Acocella <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/critics\/books\/articles\/070115crbo_books2\">reviews<\/a> the new Martin Amis novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400044553\/105-6377742-5504442?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thelitteinlit-20&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creativeASIN=1400044553\">House of Meetings<\/a>, in the New Yorker this week. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/09\/books\/09kaku.html\">Michiko Kakutani<\/a> also calls the book, &#8220;a powerful, unrelenting and deeply affecting performance: a bullet train of a novel that barrels deep into the heart of darkness that was the Soviet gulag and takes the reader along on an unnerving journey into one of history\u2019s most harrowing chapters.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Fortune magazine has named Google the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/fortune\/bestcompanies\/2007\/index.html\">best place to work<\/a> in America.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Jobs gives his annual keynote address at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macworldexpo.com\">Macworld<\/a> tomorrow morning. Keep your eyes peeled for some cool new stuff on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Apple&#8217;s website<\/a> around 11 am. You can follow the keynote live <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumorslive.com\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Randy Johnson, who did not produce a World Series title during his two years with the Yankees is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/08\/sports\/baseball\/08johnson.html\">returning to Arizona<\/a>, where he took a World Series away from New York in November 2001. Good riddance, Randy.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t yet read the Times <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/07\/education\/edlife\/07asian.html\">cover story from Education Life<\/a> yesterday, but I expect to soon and will post about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Acocella reviews the new Martin Amis novel, House of Meetings, in the New Yorker this week. Michiko Kakutani also calls the book, &#8220;a powerful, unrelenting and deeply affecting performance: a bullet train of a novel that barrels deep into the heart of darkness that was the Soviet gulag and takes the reader along on [&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\/180"}],"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=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}