{"id":1428,"date":"2007-02-13T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2007-02-13T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T12:35:00","slug":"sex-drugs-and-cocoa-puffs-a-low-culture-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/13\/sex-drugs-and-cocoa-puffs-a-low-culture-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curledup.com\/books\/sexdrugs.jpg\" align=left>This is the first book I&#8217;m reading on my <a href=\"http:\/\/shedberg.livejournal.com\/2007\/02\/09\/\">Sony Reader<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not really sure how I ended up with this book&#8230; I was noodling through Sony&#8217;s Connect digital bookstore and before I knew it, I&#8217;d downloaded the book.  The author, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuck_Klosterman\">Chuck Klosterman<\/a>, is brilliantly insightful and a pleasure to read.  The book consists of a dozen or so essays on Gen X culture and life in general.  His writing style reminds me of a long, lost friend Scott Petri&#8230; witty, intellectual, and diabolically hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Sony Reader: I like it!  Weight is nice.  Size is comfortable.  Best of all is the readability of the eInk&#8230;. it is almost like reading off of paper.  I&#8217;ve loaded up a total of 70 some odd books to include two additional Klosterman novels.  When I find an author I like, I tend to want to read all they&#8217;ve written: Nick Hornsby, Neal Stephenson, Bill Bryson&#8230;. and my maddening addiction to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Steves\">Rick Steves<\/a> travel guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first book I&#8217;m reading on my Sony Reader. I&#8217;m not really sure how I ended up with this book&#8230; I was noodling through Sony&#8217;s Connect digital bookstore and before I knew it, I&#8217;d downloaded the book. The author, Chuck Klosterman, is brilliantly insightful and a pleasure to read. The book consists of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/13\/sex-drugs-and-cocoa-puffs-a-low-culture-manifesto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto&#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_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":[1],"tags":[45,229],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-tech-gagets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-n2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}