{"id":1035,"date":"2008-11-24T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2008-11-24T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:18:34","slug":"title-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Title Bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve grown awfully sick of: endless book titles.  It seems that no book these days can be published without a paragraph length subtitle.  For example, <i>Leviathan on the Right<\/i> wasn&#8217;t long enough, so it got the subtitle <i>How Big Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution<\/i>.  <i>The Dark Side<\/i> wasn&#8217;t enough, so we got <i>The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals<\/i>.  Ron Paul is seemingly the only man who can avoid this.  His book has the comparatively simple and concise title of the <i>The Revolution: A Manifesto<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>But Dick Morris&#8217; latest ignorant screed has to take the cake.  Here&#8217;s the title: <i>Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us &#8230; and What to Do About It<\/i>.  I&#8217;m tired just reading that epistemological and grammatical nightmare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve grown awfully sick of: endless book titles. It seems that no book these days can be published without a paragraph length subtitle. For example, Leviathan on the Right wasn&#8217;t long enough, so it got the subtitle How Big Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution. The Dark Side wasn&#8217;t enough, so we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Title Bout<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-gH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}