{"id":112,"date":"2007-09-01T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/01\/the-dangerous-book-for-boys\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T12:53:33","slug":"the-dangerous-book-for-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/01\/the-dangerous-book-for-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangerous Book for Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine my excitement when I moved back into school yesterday and saw that Kyle had a copy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dangerous-Book-Boys-Conn-Iggulden\/dp\/0061243582\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/105-3859259-0295638?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1188650183&#038;sr=8-1\">The Dangerous Book for Boys<\/a><\/em>! I&#8217;d posted (I think?) the other day about how I&#8217;d heard it mentioned enough that I wanted to pick a copy up.<\/p>\n<p>The back of the book calls it &#8220;The perfect book for every boy from eight to eighty.&#8221; And it&#8217;s even better than I&#8217;d been lead to believe it was! I&#8217;m not necessarily interested in the (unusually long?) sections devoted to historical battles, but several parts seem extraordinarily interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Knots. I can tie my shoes, but that&#8217;s about it.<\/li>\n    <li>The rules of soccer. Not being a soccer fan, I never really learned anything other than the extreme basics. Here it is in two pages.<\/li>\n    <li>Nautical (Naval) flags (semaphores?): not<em> useful<\/em> to me, but neat<\/li>\n    <li>How to juggle! They say it takes about an hour of practice until you&#8217;re able to do it.<\/li>\n    <li>Types of clouds. Just the other day I was regretting having forgotten this!<\/li>\n    <li>Coin tricks. I haven&#8217;t yet tried these.<\/li>\n    <li>Latin phrases! Most of them I&#8217;m familiar with, but maybe that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m 21 and went to Catholic high school. Still a neat read, and really, a good refresher for those who know most of them. (I object to the pronunciation of &#8220;Veni, vidi, vici,&#8221; despite it being correct.)<\/li>\n    <li>How to play poker! This is what I need!<\/li>\n    <li>Chess! Once again, it was just recently that I was lementing having forgotten this skill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It also just has a lot of neat stuff that anyone (at least in the U.S.) should read, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>The Declaration of Independence. Not the first few lines, but the whole thing.<\/li>\n    <li>Selections from Shakespeare.<\/li>\n    <li>Seven poems (Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, et al*.)<\/li>\n    <li>The Ten Commandments, taken from the King James Bible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Et alia<\/em>, surprisingly, is not in the book&#8217;s list of Latin phrases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sadly, I think everyone I know is either too old or too young for me to give this book and have it appreciated for the <em>truly awesome<\/em> gift it would be, but I think it&#8217;s definitely worth picking up a copy for yourself. (Most of this book would be just as enjoyable by girls, although I should note that there&#8217;s apparently another book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Daring-Book-Girls-Andrea-Buchanan\/dp\/0061472573\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/105-3859259-0295638?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1188650183&#038;sr=8-2\">The Daring Book for Girls.<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine my excitement when I moved back into school yesterday and saw that Kyle had a copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys! I&#8217;d posted (I think?) the other day about how I&#8217;d heard it mentioned enough that I wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/09\/01\/the-dangerous-book-for-boys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}