{"id":5688,"date":"2011-04-06T21:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2011-04-06T21:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T02:09:42","slug":"books-received-michael-tottens-the-road-to-fatima-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5688","title":{"rendered":"Books Received: Michael Totten&#8217;s The Road to Fatima Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My copy of Michael Totten&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594035210\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1594035210\"><b>The Road to Fatima Gate<\/b><\/a> came in today. Since I&#8217;m also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=595\">an insane book collector<\/a> (and since he does good work), I got <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/michaeltotten\/2011\/03\/07\/last-chance-for-an-autographed-copy\/\">an autographed copy<\/a>. (One book collector gripe, Michael: If you&#8217;re going to send out autographed first editions in a USPS Priority mailing envelope, you should really use bubble wrap to protect it. Signed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/lame.html\">a guy who has a business selling collectible books on the side<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, since I can&#8217;t resist <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/michaeltotten\/2011\/04\/05\/release-date\/\">a good meme<\/a>, here&#8217;s a picture of the book in the now-traditional style (click to embiggen):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/000_07851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/000_07851-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Road to Fatima Gate &amp; Kimber .45\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/000_07851-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/000_07851-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/000_07851.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regular readers will no doubt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=4315\">recognize the gun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My copy of Michael Totten&#8217;s The Road to Fatima Gate came in today. Since I&#8217;m also an insane book collector (and since he does good work), I got an autographed copy. (One book collector gripe, Michael: If you&#8217;re going to send out autographed first editions in a USPS Priority mailing envelope, you should really use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":29,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,38,31],"tags":[1090,2868,390,72,2867,932,479,1091],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-guns","category-jihad","tag-books","tag-guns","tag-hezbollah","tag-israel","tag-jihad","tag-lebanon","tag-michael-totten","tag-the-road-to-fatima-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5706,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}