{"id":1256,"date":"2008-11-12T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2009-02-21T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T03:34:32","slug":"phrase-from-nearest-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/phrase-from-nearest-book\/","title":{"rendered":"phrase from nearest book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elliotmurphy.com\/2008\/11\/11\/phrase-from-nearest-book\/\">from elliot: phrase from nearest book <\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My result:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of UN staff call themselves human rights experts but need a shoulder to cry on each time there&#8217;s a killing&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures)<br \/>\nKenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from elliot: phrase from nearest book Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dig for your favorite book, the cool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/12\/phrase-from-nearest-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-meme"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-kg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":231,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/05\/book\/","url_meta":{"origin":1256,"position":0},"title":"book.","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2004-05-05","format":false,"excerpt":"The instructions are: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 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