{"id":1284,"date":"2005-11-03T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/11\/talk_to_the_han\/"},"modified":"2005-11-03T22:43:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T22:43:35","slug":"talk_to_the_han","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/talk_to_the_han\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk to the Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1861979339&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThis time two years, Lynne Truss&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000568.html\">Eats, Shoots and Leaves<\/a> was the de facto gift for those people you hadn&#8217;t already bought a Christmas gift for. And yes, I do know that we&#8217;re not in any way close to Christmas yet. It really annoyed me seeing the &#8220;gift&#8221; sections of Waterstones and WH Smiths today.<br \/>\nBut I digress. I read this book, in its entirety, on the way home from work today. Yup &#8211; all 200 pages in one go. OK, so I did take a somewhat roundabout route home, going via the Hammersmith Apollo, where I was unexpectantly turned away from a Sheryl Crow concert by virtue of the fact that my ticket is actually for <em>tomorrow<\/em> night. How stupid do you think I felt?<br \/>\nAnyhow, this book is basically a 200 page rant about manners and rudeness, and as such, you can find nothing really to argue about. It&#8217;s like being stuck in a pub with an eloquent and intelligent friend who&#8217;s full of anecdotes largely based around being served rudely in shops and poorly from call centres.<br \/>\nGreat fun for an hour or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time two years, Lynne Truss&#8217; Eats, Shoots and Leaves was the de facto gift for those people you hadn&#8217;t already bought a Christmas gift for. And yes, I do know that we&#8217;re not in any way close to Christmas yet. It really annoyed me seeing the &#8220;gift&#8221; sections of Waterstones and WH Smiths today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}