{"id":550,"date":"2008-12-30T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T15:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2008-12-30T17:19:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T15:19:09","slug":"another-book-review-alan-aldas-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Another Book Review: Alan Alda&#8217;s Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Alda&#8217;s latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Things-Overheard-While-Talking-Myself\/dp\/0812977521\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1230650050&amp;sr=8-1\">Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself,<\/a> generally isn&#8217;t very funny. But it is good.\u00a0 Alda, a father and a grandfather, talks about his nearly fruitless search for meaning in life.\u00a0 He talks about making a difference, but also how each of us is responsible for finding meaning meaning in our own lives.\u00a0 Alda, as it appears, is a bit of a nerd, and he certainly does have some funny stories to tell, like the time he blew a hole through his ceiling as a kid when he had a loaded weapon.\u00a0 Sure, it&#8217;s funny now!\u00a0 Nobody died or was hurt, and somehow that brought Alda more to the consumate performer we have enjoyed for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Alda&#8217;s latest book, Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself, generally isn&#8217;t very funny. But it is good.\u00a0 Alda, a father and a grandfather, talks about his nearly fruitless search for meaning in life.\u00a0 He talks about making a difference, but also how each of us is responsible for finding meaning meaning in our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Book Review: Alan Alda&#8217;s Latest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}