{"id":1707,"date":"2013-01-31T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2013-01-31T20:32:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:32:18","slug":"review-of-jared-diamonds-the-world-until-yesterday-in-the-dallas-morning-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/31\/review-of-jared-diamonds-the-world-until-yesterday-in-the-dallas-morning-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Jared Diamond&#039;s &quot;The World Until Yesterday&quot; in the Dallas Morning News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after a flu relapse that made me resemble one of those dudes on <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>, I&#8217;m struggling to maintain an upright position, and get back on with the business of the Living. Last Sunday I had a review of Jared Diamond&#8217;s new book, <em>The World Until Yesterday<\/em>, in the Dallas Morning News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/entertainment\/books\/20130125-book-review-the-world-until-yesterday-what-can-we-learn-from-traditional-societies-by-jared-diamond.ece\">here<\/a>. As readers of this blog would probably notice, I&#8217;m a fan of Diamond&#8217;s work, my favorite still being <em>Collapse<\/em>, though <em>Guns, Germs, and Steel<\/em> is probably still his most popular. <em>The World Until Yesterday<\/em> is a different beast altogether, more academic than the other two, although perhaps more daring in its comparisons.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1708\" title=\"BOOK_REVIEW_THE_WORLD_UNTIL_YESTERDAY_28978703\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BOOK_REVIEW_THE_WORLD_UNTIL_YESTERDAY_28978703.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after a flu relapse that made me resemble one of those dudes on The Walking Dead, I&#8217;m struggling to maintain an upright position, and get back on with the business of the Living. Last Sunday I had a review &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/31\/review-of-jared-diamonds-the-world-until-yesterday-in-the-dallas-morning-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-reviewing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}