{"id":330,"date":"2006-08-18T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/08\/18\/that-book-tag-but-the-other-way\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T13:10:04","slug":"that-book-tag-but-the-other-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/that-book-tag-but-the-other-way\/","title":{"rendered":"That Book Tag, But The Other Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a meme going around that has received a lot of attention for bloggers, at least ones that I read (like <a href=\"http:\/\/jmoorhead.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/book-tag.html\">Moorhead<\/a>). \u00a0 That&#8217;s really no surprise, given that most of these bloggers are readers. \u00a0 No one has tagged me (which is the way I like it), but I have decided to answer it, but with a twist. \u00a0 Most who respond start with the premise that the Bible is excluded from all of the answers. \u00a0 I&#8217;d like to flip it around, and say that all books <em>except<\/em> the Bible are excluded. \u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll do it the regular way another day.<\/p>\n<p>1. One book that changed your life: Romans<\/p>\n<p>2. One book that you&#8217;ve read more than once: 1 Samuel<\/p>\n<p>3. One book you &#8216;d want on a desert island: Isaiah<\/p>\n<p>4. One book that made you laugh: 1-2 Kings<\/p>\n<p>5. One book that made you cry: Deuteronomy<\/p>\n<p>6. One book you wish had been written: What I Learned in the Wilderness, by David<\/p>\n<p>7. One book you wish had never been written: Leviticus<\/p>\n<p>8. One book you &#8216;re currently reading: 1 Peter<\/p>\n<p>9. One book you&#8217;ve been meaning to read: Zechariah<\/p>\n<p>Before you go to blast one or more of my answers below, be sure that you have a better answer yourself. \u00a0 Of course I have taken certain liberties with the answers, trying to pick one that I felt was <em>best<\/em> all things considered (so it doesn&#8217;t mean that the only book I&#8217;ve read twice is 1 Samuel, nor does it mean I&#8217;ve never read Zechariah, or that I&#8217;m a heretic because of the Leviticus answer). \u00a0 But you get the idea. \u00a0 And hopefully it will provoke your thinking. \u00a0 And reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a meme going around that has received a lot of attention for bloggers, at least ones that I read (like Moorhead). \u00a0 That&#8217;s really no surprise, given that most of these bloggers are readers. \u00a0 No one has tagged me (which is the way I like it), but I have decided to answer\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/that-book-tag-but-the-other-way\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}