{"id":1490,"date":"2020-04-24T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:12:52","slug":"the-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2020\/04\/24\/the-information\/","title":{"rendered":"The Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/chaos\/\">posted<\/a> about James Gleick before. His book<em> Chaos<\/em> was fascinating to me. I ended up reading it several times before I felt I understood it all.<\/p>\n<p>I just finished another of his books, titled <em>The Information<\/em>. I had seen it before but don&#8217;t remember reading it. Honestly, I&#8217;m sure I would remember reading such a book. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m capable of writing a real review. It&#8217;s been out for a while so it&#8217;s unlikely I could add anything useful.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to say that I made it through the book. I felt that I understood each word as I read it, but that Gleick was giving his readers the opportunity for a deeper understanding than I was getting. I hope I can go back in a year or so and revisit his themes.<\/p>\n<p>And a technical note. I&#8217;ve always loved a real book. You can look at it and make some judgements about it before you even pick it up. In the last few years, I&#8217;ve developed the habit of going to the library and just browsing the stacks in some subject area. Now that the libraries are closed, I&#8217;ve learned more about e-readers. My local library recommended one called Libby. It works well, syncing across my phone and tablet as I go back and forth. After a year or so of not reading much at all, I&#8217;ve gotten going again.<\/p>\n<p>Day 43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted about James Gleick before. His book Chaos was fascinating to me. I ended up reading it several times before I felt I understood it all. I just finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[387,626,388,627],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-chaos","tag-e-reader","tag-gleick","tag-libby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezachproject.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}