{"id":5308,"date":"2004-11-12T14:48:40","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2004-11-12T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T14:48:40","slug":"splashing-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/11\/12\/splashing-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Splashing cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just received a letter from Chichester District Council telling me that they owe me a council tax rebate of nearly &pound;200, I thought I&#8217;d treat my gorgeous wife to a light lunch in order to cheer her up, then would explore the bookshop for some new reading matter. Purchased in a 3 for 2 deal:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007140975\/grayblog-21\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"amazon.co.uk\">Francis Wheen &#8211; How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World<\/a>. &quot;Hilarious&quot; says Jeremy Paxman!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571205925\/grayblog-21\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"amazon.co.uk\">Tobias Jones &#8211; The Dark Heart Of Italy<\/a>. &quot;Excellent&quot; says Andrew Marr!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0141015055\/grayblog-21\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"amazon.co.uk\">Noam Chomsky &#8211; Hegemony or Survival: America&#8217;s Quest for Global Dominance<\/a>. &quot;Devastating&quot; says Tim Adams!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll try to report back on the levels of hilarity, excellence and devastation in each case. And I really must update that current reading, current listening and current mood thing in the sidebar, as it&#8217;s not-at-all current.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: sidebar updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just received a letter from Chichester District Council telling me that they owe me a council tax rebate of nearly &pound;200, I thought I&#8217;d treat my gorgeous wife to a light lunch in order to cheer her up, then would explore the bookshop for some new reading matter. Purchased in a 3 for 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-literature","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}