{"id":93,"date":"2008-11-24T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2008-11-24T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T16:52:39","slug":"the-closest-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/93","title":{"rendered":"The Closest Book Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading some posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.gentoo.org\">planet.gentoo.org<\/a> and thought I&#8217;d take part in <em>The Closest Book Meme<\/em>. So as a reply to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulhammer.org\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=259&#038;Itemid=99999999\">Christian<\/a>, this is mine:<\/p>\n<p>Since I don&#8217;t have any real books (paper is deprecated), I opened the first ebook I found when browsing through the files stored on my mobile (lying directly in front of me, thus technically being the nearest book) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gustavhasford.com\/timers.htm\"><em>The Short-Timers: The Spirit of the Bayonet<\/em> by Gustav Hasford<\/a>. After pressing <tt>page down<\/tt> for 55 times in fullscreen mode on my Nokia 9300i, I found the fifth sentence to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civilians and members of the lesser services bleed all over the place like bed wetters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/center><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Grab the nearest book.<\/li>\n<li>Open it to page 56.<\/li>\n<li>Find the fifth sentence.<\/li>\n<li>Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading some posts on planet.gentoo.org and thought I&#8217;d take part in The Closest Book Meme. So as a reply to Christian, this is mine: Since I don&#8217;t have any real books (paper is deprecated), I opened the first ebook I found when browsing through the files stored on my mobile (lying directly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/archives\/93\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Closest Book Meme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}