{"id":1554,"date":"2009-02-20T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T23:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2009-02-20T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T23:06:38","slug":"one-blog-schoolhouse-the-musical-collection-of-edited-blog-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1554","title":{"rendered":"One-Blog Schoolhouse, the <del>Musical<\/del> collection of &#8230; edited blog entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few months, in odd moments, I&#8217;ve edited about three-dozen entries I&#8217;ve written in the past few years so you could hold the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0982331304?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sherdorn-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0982331304\">One-Blog Schoolhouse<\/a> in your hands after buying it at your local internet book dealer. <\/p>\n<p>Why should you buy a book composed of blog entries that you could probably find somewhere online (i.e., here) and read for free?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The title is great. Admit it: you need to buy the book just because of the title.<\/li>\n<li>There are only two ways you can read my letter to the president on education policy: work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or buy the book. The letter is in the prefatory materials, right after the acknowledgments. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve taken care to edit the entries so you don&#8217;t have to remember what was going on in the blogosphere in September 2007 or any other month.<\/li>\n<li>I have secretly conspired to upgrade my blog platform a few months ago in such a way that the search-box no longer works. Bwahahaha!&nbsp; Uh, no; that lack of functionality is not my fault, and you could use Google to find any blog entry here. But the book has a friendly table of contents and an index that will smile if you give it dark chocolate. (I need to get a PDF of the contents and index online, and when I do, I&#8217;ll write another entry to point to it.)<\/li>\n<li>While I have some selected reading suggestions in the text, there is a more complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/PoEP\/supplementary\/OBS-references.pdf\">list of references available for downloading right now<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When you are on a plane or otherwise disengaged from the internet, you can get the exact same experience that you would by reading my blog, except that you don&#8217;t have backlighting, and the book itself is much lighter than whatever you&#8217;re using to read this entry.<\/li>\n<li>When you have a friend or colleague who just refuses to read blogs, you can put the book under her or his nose and say, &#8220;This is what you&#8217;ve been missing!&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>You will find the book priced for an economic downturn, less expensive than anything else in print with my name as author or editor.<\/li>\n<li>The cover has the friendly slogan in big red letters, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Panic.&#8221; Since the book cover is <b>also<\/b> red, you may find the slogan a little tough to find. But it&#8217;s there! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0982331304?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sherdorn-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0982331304\">One-Blog Schoolhouse<\/a> today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last few months, in odd moments, I&#8217;ve edited about three-dozen entries I&#8217;ve written in the past few years so you could hold the new One-Blog Schoolhouse in your hands after buying it at your local internet book dealer. Why should you buy a book composed of blog entries that you could probably find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-p4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}