{"id":2741,"date":"2009-09-17T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2009-09-16T17:03:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T01:03:38","slug":"book-titles-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/books\/book-titles-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Book titles then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have weighed in with examples of book titles then and now over at <a title=\"book titles then and now\" href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/09\/09\/book-titles-if-they-were-written-today\">kottke.org<\/a>. These are some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Then: <em>Book of Genesis<\/em><br \/>\n Now:<em> FLOOD! A true story of heartbreak, heroism, and the will to survive<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Then: <em>Moby Dick<\/em><br \/>\n Now: <em>Orca Obsession: How the Whaling Industry Is Destroying Our Sea and Sailors<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Then: <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em><br \/>\n Now: <em>The Teen Sex and Suicide Epidemic: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself and Your Family<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Then: <em>The Gospel of Matthew<\/em><br \/>\n Now: <em>40 Days and a Mule: How One Man Quit His Job and Became the Boss<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And my own contribution:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Then: <em>Julia Child&#8217;s Mastering the Art of French Cooking<\/em><br \/>\n Now: <em>Chicken Soup for the Kitchen<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people have weighed in with examples of book titles then and now over at kottke.org. These are some of my favorites: Then: Book of Genesis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}