{"id":648,"date":"2009-12-14T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-12-14T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T22:08:39","slug":"i-had-not-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"I had not known"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>that Abebooks keeps a list of weird books. Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.co.uk\/books\/weird\/index.shtml\">UK site does<\/a>, anyway. I actually own copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.co.uk\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=1159592762&#038;searchurl=an%3Dmannix%26ph%3D2%26sortby%3D3%26tn%3Dhistory%2Btorture\">this one<\/a> (although mine isn&#8217;t signed) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.co.uk\/products\/isbn\/9780813516356\">this one<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve seen a stack of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.co.uk\/servlet\/SearchResults?sortby=3&#038;tn=Fart+Proudly%3A+Writings+of+Benjamin+Franklin+You+Never+Read+in+School&#038;x=76&#038;y=12\">this one<\/a> in a discount bookstore and in a museum hosting a Franklin exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>I think my daughter would want a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.co.uk\/servlet\/SearchResults?sortby=3&#038;tn=Fart+Proudly%3A+Writings+of+Benjamin+Franklin+You+Never+Read+in+School&#038;x=76&#038;y=12\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I own other strange books: among them, I have copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wizard-Ozzenland-Grossfaders-rhymers-tellen\/dp\/B0007E9L54\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1260817286&#038;sr=8-2\">Der Wizard in Ozzenland<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Death-Philip-Ziegler\/dp\/0061315508\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1260817370&#038;sr=1-3\">book on the black death<\/a> to go with the torture book, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grub-Bag-Ita-Jones\/dp\/B002JN4FRA\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1260817454&#038;sr=1-2\">cookbook that contains a chapter on cannibalism<\/a>, and an inscribed copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mason-Williams-Reading-Matter\/dp\/0385012667\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1260817563&#038;sr=1-1\">The Mason Williams Reading Matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just things to keep busy with on cold winter nights.<\/p>\n<p>Update: And, speaking of weird books, and things with which to keep busy, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/xorsyst.com\/japan\/koji-suzuki-drop-horror\/\">an article about a horror story<\/a> you can buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that Abebooks keeps a list of weird books. Well, the UK site does, anyway. I actually own copies of this one (although mine isn&#8217;t signed) and this one, and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-its-all-about-me","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}