{"id":24879,"date":"2014-02-19T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=24879"},"modified":"2014-02-19T18:41:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T22:41:38","slug":"book-title-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/02\/19\/book-title-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Classic Book Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/02\/new-york-competition-no-15.html\">New York Magazine&#8217;s Competition 15<\/a>, we&#8217;re asked to &#8220;submit the title of an almost familiar literary classic.&#8221;  Here are the fake titles I submitted:<\/p>\n<p>A Tale of Two Biddies<\/p>\n<p>The Catcher in the Pumpernickel<\/p>\n<p>Grapes of Math<\/p>\n<p>Jane&#8217;s Hair<\/p>\n<p>The Plaque<\/p>\n<p>Moby&#8217;s Schtick<\/p>\n<p>Moby&#8217;s Dick<\/p>\n<p>In Search of Lost Rhyme<\/p>\n<p>Of Mice And Women<\/p>\n<p>The Big Nap<\/p>\n<p>The Tin Eardrum<\/p>\n<p>100 Years of Solitary Confinement<\/p>\n<p>The Executioner&#8217;s Bong<\/p>\n<p>Lorna Doone Cookies<\/p>\n<p>Middlemay<\/p>\n<p>The Miller Needs to Floss<\/p>\n<p>The Turn of the Screwdriver<\/p>\n<p>The Importance of Being an Internist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York Magazine&#8217;s Competition 15, we&#8217;re asked to &#8220;submit the title of an almost familiar literary classic.&#8221; Here are the fake titles I submitted: A Tale of Two Biddies The Catcher in the Pumpernickel Grapes of Math Jane&#8217;s Hair The Plaque Moby&#8217;s Schtick Moby&#8217;s Dick In Search of Lost Rhyme Of Mice And Women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176,62,42,3262],"tags":[4018,5030,4019,3985],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24884,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24879\/revisions\/24884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}