{"id":1142,"date":"2008-12-28T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:20:57","slug":"dons-reading-list-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2008\/12\/dons-reading-list-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019s Reading List (14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Childhood&#8217;s End<\/em> by Arthur C. Clarke &#8211; I&#8217;ve heard that this is one of his best.<\/li>\n<li><em>Nine Stories<\/em> by J.D. Salinger &#8211; This was recommended by a sort-of martial arts acquaintance as an interesting and sort of mind-expanding read. I&#8217;m not exactly sure what the connection between this book and<\/li>\n<li><em>Revolution in the Valley<\/em> by Andy Hertzfeld &#8211; A really fun look at the creation of the Apple Macintosh by those who actually participated.<\/li>\n<li><em>1776<\/em> by David McCullough &#8211; I understand why this book was on the best seller list for so long. McCullogh writes in a simple, straightforward style that engages the reader and makes history fun and interesting. There is a lot that I don&#8217;t know about the Revolutionary War and the founding of our country so this was a good look at that first year of the revolution. I wish I could find another, equally interesting history of the rest of the war!<\/li>\n<li><em>Touching History<\/em> by Lynn Spencer &#8211; Perhaps a little too detailed is how I would review this one. This is the story of what happened in the air on the morning of September 11th, 2001 from the perspective of the FAA, DoT, National Guard and many of the pilots who were in the air that day. It&#8217;s really well documented and shows just how unprepared the US air defenses and air transportation systems were for an event of this type.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood&#8217;s End by Arthur C. Clarke &#8211; I&#8217;ve heard that this is one of his best. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger &#8211; This was recommended by a sort-of martial arts acquaintance as an interesting and sort of mind-expanding read. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/2008\/12\/dons-reading-list-14\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading_list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/don.oninohana.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}