{"id":709,"date":"2008-04-18T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/04\/18\/books-on-tv\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T20:58:51","slug":"books-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2008\/04\/18\/books-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s always complaining about how people don&#8217;t read any more, right? Well, I have the solution, and I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s going to make me a million dollars.<br \/>\nThe reason nobody&#8217;s reading any more is obvious &#8212; we love TV. And the solution&#8217;s just as obvious: a TV channel that shows books, one page at a time.<br \/>\nImagine &#8212; the smart thinking you get from a book *plus* the brain-aesthesia you get from TV! I&#8217;m so excited, I&#8217;ve passed out twice while writing this. First, when I said I was going to make a million dollars. And then again when I woke up and I re-read that sentence about a million dollars. I&#8217;m gonna be rich!<br \/>\nThere are lots of great &#8220;books on&#8221; ideas we should be exploring. I can&#8217;t tackle them all so I&#8217;ll put a few out there, and you can get rich too.<br \/>\n&#8220;Books on toasters,&#8221; for example. Why not? Or &#8220;books on telescopes.&#8221; You know, we put a book on the moon and then people will read it through a telescope.<br \/>\nIf we can put a man on the moon, we can put a book on the moon. It just stands to reason!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s always complaining about how people don&#8217;t read any more, right? Well, I have the solution, and I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s going to make me a million dollars. The reason nobody&#8217;s reading any more is obvious &#8212; we love TV. And the solution&#8217;s just as obvious: a TV channel that shows books, one page at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-million-dollar-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}