{"id":84,"date":"2004-12-12T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:55:22","slug":"update-australias-favourite-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/12\/update-australias-favourite-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Update: Australia&#8217;s favourite books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">A few days ago I favoured you with my <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2004\/12\/survey-says-australia-irrelevant-to.html\">thoughts on the ABC&#8217;s poll<\/a> on Australia&#8217;s favourite books. Now there&#8217;s a discussion over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/\">Crikey<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/media\/2004\/12\/10-0001.html\">what the hell happened<\/a>. Two choice quotes:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">In the SMH we are told there were 15,000 voters and 5,000 different book titles. An average of 3 votes per book. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">I&#8217;d just thought I&#8217;d let you know, although it&#8217;s probably un-provable, that members of the My Favourite Book production staff went around the ABC getting staff to fill out votes. I personally voted twice and one staff member was asked to vote 10 times for <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Fortunate Life<\/span> so it would make it into an appropriate placing.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Are there lots of Falun Gong devotees working at the ABC?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I favoured you with my thoughts on the ABC&#8217;s poll on Australia&#8217;s favourite books. Now there&#8217;s a discussion over at Crikey about what the hell happened. Two choice quotes: In the SMH we are told there were 15,000 voters and 5,000 different book titles. An average of 3 votes per book. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}