{"id":3134,"date":"2010-03-01T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=3134"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:35:02","slug":"odd-book-titles-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/misc\/offbeat\/odd-book-titles-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd book titles of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-10\/crocheting-adventures.jpg\" alt=\"odd book titles: crocheting adventures with hyperbolic planes\" width=\"435\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"the bookseller - odd book titles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/lifestyle\/the-other-side\/oddest-book-titles-of-2009-make-for-mighty-strange-reading\/story-e6frfhk6-1225835550023\">The Bookseller is back<\/a> with another round of odd book titles. This year the six finalists for the Diagram Prize for odd book titles are the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel  Disease<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What Kind of Bean is This Chihuahua?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I mentioned before in this context, as the translator of <em>Frozen Coagulated Cultures in Wine, Cheese, and Sauerkraut Production,<\/em> I fail to see what&#8217;s so funny about these titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bookseller is back with another round of odd book titles. This year the six finalists for the Diagram Prize for odd book titles are the following: Afterthoughts&#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":[35,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134"}],"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=3134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3138,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3134\/revisions\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}