{"id":5056,"date":"2013-10-25T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:00:03","slug":"friday-fun-popular-reading-collection-new-book-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/friday-fun-popular-reading-collection-new-book-arrivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun &#8211; Popular Reading Collection! New book arrivals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/10\/dumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5060\" alt=\"dumb\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/10\/dumb.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/10\/dumb.jpg 242w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/10\/dumb-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a>Just In &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\u201c<b>The Misconception<\/b>: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><b>The Truth<\/b>: You are as deluded as the rest of us.\u00a0 But that\u2019s okay-it keeps you sane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This is the premise of David McRaney\u2019s new book, <i>You are Now Less Dumb<\/i>, a sequel to <i>You Are Not So Smart. \u00a0<\/i>The book<i> <\/i>provides a more expansive analysis of self-delusion and irrational thinking, combining scientific elements with humor and wit.\u00a0 The Huffington Post says \u201cMcRaney acknowledges the common ways in which we compromise our intelligence everyday without ever making the reader feel stupid.\u201d\u00a0 Check out this new title and many more in Collins\u2019 Popular Reading Collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just In &#8211; \u201cThe Misconception: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is. The Truth: You are as deluded as the rest of us.\u00a0 But that\u2019s okay-it keeps you sane.\u201d This is the premise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/friday-fun-popular-reading-collection-new-book-arrivals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-fun-recommended-films-popular-reading","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}