{"id":490,"date":"2006-08-13T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/13\/audiobooks-of-the-times\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T16:34:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T16:34:51","slug":"audiobooks-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/13\/audiobooks-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobooks of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a lot in the <cite>Times<\/cite> this week (other than, you know, depressing news about the Middle East), but I did find their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/13\/fashion\/13audio.html?ex=1313121600&#038;en=148eaf6c0a1149ce&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">piece on couples arguing over audiobooks<\/a> amusing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[L]ately an unwitting group has been parachuting into the matrimonial crossfire: authors. As more couples discover how an audio book breaks the monotony of a road trip, writers who once enjoyed sovereignty on respective night tables are now fighting for air time in the family car. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I like business books, or nonfiction, or maybe science fiction,&#8221; said Mr. Wollborg, who rents from Simply Audiobooks, which is set up like Netflix, &#8220;she wants James Patterson books like the Women&#8217;s Murder Club series. I did try getting a couple of the Patterson books but I think the writing is unbelievably bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Happily, Kate and I don&#8217;t have this problem. It really doesn&#8217;t matter what sort of audiobook gets put on, as they all put me directly to sleep. Which means, if I&#8217;m driving, we get music so I can sing along with the iPod to keep myself awake (and Kate goes to sleep), and if Kate&#8217;s driving, she listens to audiobooks, while I sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another dopey marital problem written up in the <cite>Times<\/cite> that doesn&#8217;t affect us. I&#8217;ve got to say, there&#8217;s nothing like reading their relationship columns to convince you that you have the Best Marriage Ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a lot in the Times this week (other than, you know, depressing news about the Middle East), but I did find their piece on couples arguing over audiobooks amusing: [L]ately an unwitting group has been parachuting into the matrimonial crossfire: authors. As more couples discover how an audio book breaks the monotony of a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/08\/13\/audiobooks-of-the-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Audiobooks of the Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}