{"id":734,"date":"2008-12-30T23:06:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/12\/30\/books-reviews-and-newsletters\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:06:02","slug":"books-reviews-and-newsletters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/books-reviews-and-newsletters\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, Reviews, and Newsletters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, judging from the media&#8217;s reporting, how many books do you suppose President Bush read the last three years?&#160; A half?&#160; Actually, he read the Bible cover to cover each year.&#160; Besides that, he has averaged <a href=\"http:\/\/sec.online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123025595706634689.html\">62 books each<\/a> of the last three years.&#160; That&#8217;s impressive, especially for someone with a few other things to do.<\/p>\n<p>If you always wondered what an ad would look like that cost $10 million to make, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flixxy.com\/tipping-point.htm\">now you know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A teeny step of forward movement: a book review that I wrote is published in the current issue of the <em>Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society<\/em> (not online).<\/p>\n<p>If you like reading about Windows matters, one of the best newsletters out there (after they swallowed a couple of other good ones) is Windows Secrets.&#160; They are now offering a free 3-month subscription to their paid version of the newsletter: <a title=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/holidaygift\/\" href=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/holidaygift\/\">http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/holidaygift\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My humble offering to the Israeli leaders: earplugs and a determination for nothing less than <em>victory<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Berry has a funny essay on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/19\/AR2008121901343.html\">The Year in Review<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can see our latest family photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/081110313tb450_Bolen_family_photo.jpg\">here<\/a>.&#160; If you did not receive by snail mail, but would like, our family Christmas letter, email me and I &#8216;ll send it as an attachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, judging from the media&#8217;s reporting, how many books do you suppose President Bush read the last three years?&#160; A half?&#160; Actually, he read the Bible cover to cover each year.&#160; Besides that, he has averaged 62 books each of the last three years.&#160; That&#8217;s impressive, especially for someone with a few other things to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/books-reviews-and-newsletters\/\">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":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}