{"id":674,"date":"2016-02-21T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2016-02-21T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T20:39:24","slug":"better-together-2-pairs-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/better-together-2-pairs-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Together &#8211; 2 Pairs of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These book pairings are a couple\u00a0examples of when 1 + 1 = much more than 2.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>French on Americans on French<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1WBD7y8\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>The Discovery of France<\/i><\/span><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Ugq8mX\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>Democracy in America<\/i><\/span><\/a>. <i>Discovery<\/i> is a modern book by an American\u00a0about old France, <i>Democracy<\/i> is an old book by a Frenchman\u00a0about modern (for its time) America. The writing couldn&#8217;t be more different, but the themes are wonderfully similar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>The Origin of the Mind<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1VxuyUV\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>The Mind in the Cave<\/i><\/span><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1RVGTmS\"><span class=\"s3\"><i>The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind<\/i><\/span><\/a>. One is about consciousness arising through art, the other through words. Both are controversial, speculative, unique, and fascinating.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These book pairings are a couple\u00a0examples of when 1 + 1 = much more than 2. French on Americans on French &#8211; The Discovery of France &amp; Democracy in America. Discovery is a modern book by an American\u00a0about old France, Democracy is an old book by a Frenchman\u00a0about modern (for its time) America. The writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-m"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/pairings.jpg?fit=1600%2C898&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-aS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}