{"id":1350,"date":"2009-03-29T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2009-03-29T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T19:03:26","slug":"a-short-history-of-siena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/29\/a-short-history-of-siena\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of Siena"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-1350\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Short-History-Siena-Giuliano-Catoni\/dp\/8877813199\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1238353188&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">A Short History of Siena<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> <span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Giuliano%20Catoni\">Giuliano Catoni<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 8877813199<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-8877813190<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bought this book in Siena with high hopes; unfortunately, it was mostly a waste of time to read this on the flight home from Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The author&#8217;s writing style is scattered; at times I thought Catoni would have some unifying themes, but they wouldn&#8217;t congeal.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a small book but a hard read because its not well structured.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recommend this one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-1350\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 1350);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-1350\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-1350\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: A Short History of Siena Author: Giuliano Catoni Paperback ISBN-10: 8877813199 ISBN-13: 978-8877813190 Bought this book in Siena with high hopes; unfortunately, it was mostly a waste of time to read this on the flight home from Italy. The author&#8217;s writing style is scattered; at times I thought Catoni would have some unifying themes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[3],"tags":[2353],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-italy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-lM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}