{"id":2841,"date":"2023-05-30T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:50:08","slug":"review-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fck-by-mark-manson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fck-by-mark-manson\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I admit that it&#8217;s a great title.  And the opening few pages are kind of cute.  And then &#8212; nothing.  The book has absolutely nothing to say.  And it&#8217;s based on nothing, other than Mark Manson&#8217;s life story which is, frankly, not all that interesting.  It&#8217;s written in a blokey, sexist way &#8212; almost as if, foul language excluded, it could have been written in the 1950s.  I have absolutely no idea why over ten million copies of this book were sold.  Manson has, apparently, written a sequel or two. But I couldn&#8217;t give a fuck. Don&#8217;t waste your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit that it&#8217;s a great title. And the opening few pages are kind of cute. And then &#8212; nothing. The book has absolutely nothing to say. And it&#8217;s based on nothing, other than Mark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}