{"id":3264,"date":"2010-05-25T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T22:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2010-05-25T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T22:47:11","slug":"what-a-way-to-start-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/what-a-way-to-start-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"What a way to start a book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seven-Day-Weekend-Changing-Work-Works\/dp\/1591840260\">Ricardo Semler&#8217;s book &#8220;The Seven Day Weekend&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3263 aligncenter\" title=\"ricardo-semler-7dayweekend\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ricardo-semler-7dayweekend1-225x3001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This has to be <strong>one of the best openings <\/strong>to a book I&#8217;ve ever read.<\/p>\n<p>It reads:<\/p>\n<p>1. Why are we able to answer emails on Sundays, but unable to go to the movies on Monday afternoons?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why can&#8217;t we take the kids to work if we can take work home?<\/p>\n<p>3. Why do we think the opposite of work is leisure, when in fact it is idleness?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless it has set a high bar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it, grab a copy, also grab his first book Maverick it&#8217;s incredible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First page of Ricardo Semler&#8217;s book &#8220;The Seven Day Weekend&#8221;. This has to be one of the best openings to a book I&#8217;ve ever read. It reads: 1. Why are we able to answer emails on Sundays, but unable to go to the movies on Monday afternoons? 2. Why can&#8217;t we take the kids to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[151,1065,1129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}