{"id":312,"date":"2003-09-16T08:50:25","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T08:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parnes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2003\/09\/16\/books_1\/"},"modified":"2003-09-16T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T08:50:25","slug":"books_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/09\/16\/books_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Books&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a  few book tips from Calum Bingham!<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nGreetings Dr Peppar<br \/>\nI discovered your web site last night and have been reading your entries and looking at your photos &#8211; which I have enjoyed and found interesting.<br \/>\nI live with my family in Auckland, New Zealand. A long way geographically from you &#8211; but distance is nothing on the internet.<br \/>\nI have some reading recommendations for you:<br \/>\n&#8220;Northern Lights&#8221; by Phillip Pullman. First book of a trilogy<br \/>\nthat is very well written, a great story with much suspense.<br \/>\nIt won the English &#8220;Guardian&#8221; newspaper award and also the &#8220;Carnegie&#8221; medal &#8211; both very reputable awards.<br \/>\n&#8220;Hokkaido Highway Blues&#8221; by Will Fergusson. This is an extremely readable and funny book written by a Canadian<br \/>\nwho hitched from the southern most island of Japan to the<br \/>\nnorthern island &#8211; often had me laughing out loud &#8211; very good for armchair travellers.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure if either of these is to your taste but if you ask around I think they would both be recommended.(Not sure if  books in english are widely available where you are?).<br \/>\nAnyway, happy reading&#8230;<br \/>\nRegards,<br \/>\nCalum Bingham<br \/>\nP.S. A couple of sci fi movies &#8211; &#8220;Existenz&#8221; and &#8220;Signs&#8221; &#8211; have a look&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nThanks!!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a few book tips from Calum Bingham! &#8212; Greetings Dr Peppar I discovered your web site last night and have been reading your entries and looking at your photos &#8211; which I have enjoyed and found interesting. I live with my family in Auckland, New Zealand. A long way geographically from you &#8211; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/09\/16\/books_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parnes.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}