{"id":55,"date":"2008-11-25T20:04:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T20:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2020-07-05T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:12:34","slug":"thomas-paine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/25\/thomas-paine\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Paine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book I have been slogging through for nigh on a year is <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081008023356\/http:\/\/www.word-power.co.uk\/books\/thomas-paine-I9780044450900\/\"><cite>Thomas Paine &#8211; social and political thought<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t been reading books for a while so to get back into it started taking them for the bus journey to work and back. Unfortunately this was probably a poor choice for reading early on the day.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a book analysing late 18th century political theory and is written in a style to match. <strong>Really<\/strong> dense, black hole academic dense. I quite enjoy books with loads of endnotes and footnotes.<\/p>\n<p>The bibliography is almost 30 pages.<\/p>\n<p>30.<\/p>\n<p>pages.<\/p>\n<p>That tells you how many endnotes etc. there were.<\/p>\n<p>The book was enjoyable, interesting and informative. It just achieved these attributes in spite of its style. And it was a bargain too, normally \u00a320+ I got it for \u00a33 from the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131128064440\/http:\/\/www.scottishsocialistparty.org\/\">SSP<\/a>&#8216;s Wee Red Bookshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book I have been slogging through for nigh on a year is Thomas Paine &#8211; social and political thought. I hadn&#8217;t been reading books for a while so to get back into it started taking them for the bus journey to work and back. Unfortunately this was probably a poor choice for reading early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[21,796],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-philosophy","tag-book","tag-philosophy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3829,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agraham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}