{"id":370,"date":"2007-12-26T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/12\/26\/fortune-cookies-along-with-spitzer-and-ahmadinejad-in-the-new-york-suns-office-pool\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T16:35:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T21:35:53","slug":"fortune-cookies-along-with-spitzer-and-ahmadinejad-in-the-new-york-suns-office-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/26\/fortune-cookies-along-with-spitzer-and-ahmadinejad-in-the-new-york-suns-office-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Cookies (along with Spitzer and Ahmadinejad) in the New York Sun&#8217;s office pool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Sun&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/68569\">editorial page<\/a> today, an office pool for 2008:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"article\" class=\"article_small\">2. The surprise breakout nonfiction bestseller of the year will be a) Natan Sharansky&#8217;s &#8220;Defending Identity&#8221; b) Jonathan Mahler&#8217;s &#8220;Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: A Historic Challenge to the President&#8221; c) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Steven+Waldman\" title=\"Steven Waldman\">Steven Waldman<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=United+States\" title=\"United States\">America<\/a>.&#8221; d) Jonathan Rosen&#8217;s &#8220;The Life of the Skies&#8221; e) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Jennifer+8.+Lee\" title=\"Jennifer 8. Lee\">Jennifer 8. Lee<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Other things you can take bets on in 2008: <span id=\"article\" class=\"article_small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Phil+Bredesen\" title=\"Phil Bredesen\">Governor Phil Bredesen<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (Dem vice-presidential nominee), <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad\" title=\"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\"><span id=\"article\" class=\"article_small\"><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Conrad+Black\" title=\"Conrad Black\">Conrad Black<\/a> (recipient of Bush pardon),<span id=\"article\" class=\"article_small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/related_results.php?term=Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad\" title=\"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\"> Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<\/a> (ousted dictator). <\/span><span id=\"article\" class=\"article_small\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the New York Sun&#8217;s editorial page today, an office pool for 2008: 2. The surprise breakout nonfiction bestseller of the year will be a) Natan Sharansky&#8217;s &#8220;Defending Identity&#8221; b) Jonathan Mahler&#8217;s &#8220;Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: A Historic Challenge to the President&#8221; c) Steven Waldman&#8216;s &#8220;Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-5Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}