{"id":1993,"date":"2013-12-17T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2013-12-17T11:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T01:33:37","slug":"best-books-of-2013-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/best-books-of-2013-slate\/","title":{"rendered":"Best books of 2013 from Slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Slate\u2019s columnists, editors, and bloggers pick their favorite books of the year.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m always looking for new books to read over the holiday break. If you are too, here&#8217;s a few good suggestions from Slate to get you started.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll tackling during this year&#8217;s break:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/168668.Catch_22\">Catch-22<\/a> by Joseph Heller<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16113737-the-reason-i-jump\">The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism <\/a> by Naoki Higashida<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/18302455-the-circle\">The Circle <\/a> by Dave Eggers<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16130606-you-don-t-know-me-but-you-don-t-like-me\">You Don&#8217;t Know Me but You Don&#8217;t Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music&#8217;s Most Maligned Tribes<\/a> by Nathan Rabin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/15751404-david-and-goliath\">David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants<\/a> by Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slate\u2019s columnists, editors, and bloggers pick their favorite books of the year. I&#8217;m always looking for new books&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[555,556],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}