{"id":16890,"date":"2009-03-29T17:08:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16890"},"modified":"2014-12-11T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T04:08:47","slug":"the-oddest-book-title-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/29\/the-oddest-book-title-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The oddest book title of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/28\/books\/28contest.html?ref=books\">As reported by the <i>New York Times<\/i><\/a>, the winner of the Bookseller\/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year is&#151;<\/p>\n<p><i>The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s finalists included:<\/p>\n<p><i>Curbside Consultation of the Colon<\/i><br \/>\n<i>The Large Sieve and Its Applications<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Strip and Knit With Style<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My favorite of all past nominees mentioned in the article, however, was the 2005 winner:<\/p>\n<p><i>People Who Don&#8217;t Know They&#8217;re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported by the New York Times, the winner of the Bookseller\/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year is&#151; The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais This year&#8217;s finalists included: Curbside Consultation of the Colon The Large Sieve and Its Applications Strip and Knit With Style Techniques for Corrosion Monitoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16891,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions\/16891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}