{"id":2329,"date":"2003-02-12T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2003-02-12T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2003-02-12T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2003-02-12T17:57:41","slug":"reading_can_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"Reading can be fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0765304368\/lifelistedchr-20\"><\/p>\n<p \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imported-legacy\/images\/amazon\/0765304368.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cover\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\"><\/a>A week or so ago I was using up a gift certificate from &#8220;Amazon&#8221; and had a few dollars left over so picked up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0765304368\/lifelistedchr-20\"><\/p>\n<p \/>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craphound.com\/\">Cory Doctrow<\/a>.  I&#8217;d heard some good buzz about it and it sounded like a pretty cool idea.  This morning I was stuck in the doctor&#8217;s office for a bit and started reading it.  Seventy pages later I&#8217;m hooked.  Enough so that I&#8217;m probably gonna curl up in a few and read a bunch more of it.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The book takes the future, people don&#8217;t use cash for money anymore.  Your net worth as a person is determined by your reputation and is counted in someting called Wuffie.  The higher your score, the more valuable you are.  It&#8217;s a neat concept.  The main character has just moved to Disneyworld to live and gets caught up in what is looking to be a pretty interesting adventure.  So far I recommend the book, it&#8217;s completely sucked me in, but I&#8217;ll be sure to post an update when I finish.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Oh, and one other cool thing is that Cory has made the book <a href=\"http:\/\/public.www.planetmirror.com\/pub\/cory-doctrow\/downandout\/\">available for download<\/a>. That&#8217;s right, the whole book.  Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t mind sampling a bit of a book that way.  But the idea of reading around 200 pages on a computer screen leaves me a bit cold.  Though, I guess I could print it out.  I just like the feel of a book in my hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week or so ago I was using up a gift certificate from &#8220;Amazon&#8221; and had a few dollars left over so picked up a copy of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctrow. I&#8217;d heard some good buzz about it and it sounded like a pretty cool idea. This morning I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}