{"id":118,"date":"2014-08-25T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/?p=118"},"modified":"2014-10-30T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T23:50:42","slug":"10-books-that-had-an-impact-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/2014\/08\/25\/10-books-that-had-an-impact-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Books that had an impact on me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on Facebook <\/a>a friend challenged me to list 10 books that had an impact on my life. I figured I should share them on Tumblr as well. So in no special order (and limiting it to one book per author), here they are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Harriet the Spy<\/em> by Louise Fitzhugh<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>\/Through the Looking-glass<\/em> by Lewis Carroll\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Doctor No<\/em> by Ian Fleming<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. The Tango Briefing<\/em> by Adam Hall\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. A Empire of the<\/span><\/em>ir Own<\/em> by Neil Gabler<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. On Writing Well<\/em> by William Zinsser<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths<\/em> by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Thieves’ Picnic<\/em> (AKA The Saint Bids Diamonds<\/em>) by Leslie Charteris<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear<\/em> by Kin Platt\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. The Return of the King<\/em> by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    And a weird honorable mention for No. 11: Corvette Summer<\/em> by Wayland Drew<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Over on Facebook a friend challenged me to list 10 books that had an impact on my life. I figured I should share them on Tumblr as well. So in no special order (and limiting it to one book per author), here they are: Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland\/Through the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72],"tags":[78,87,472,86,81,75,77,84,83,82,74,85,76,79,73,19,80],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-adam-hall","tag-because-why-not","tag-books","tag-corvette-summer","tag-daulaires-book-of-greek-myths","tag-favorite-books","tag-ian-fleming","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-kin-platt","tag-leslie-charteris","tag-lists","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-louise-fitzhugh","tag-neil-gabler","tag-reading","tag-the-saint","tag-william-zinsser"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5foza-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}