{"id":1724,"date":"2015-06-02T06:08:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2015-08-01T18:49:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T18:49:32","slug":"the-rosie-project-graeme-simsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/books\/the-rosie-project-graeme-simsion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rosie Project &#8211; Graeme Simsion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quotes I noted from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1LZlgMv\">The Rosie Project<\/a> by Graeme Simsion. This book was actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesnotes.com\/Books\/The-Rosie-Project\">recommended \u00a0by Bill Gates<\/a>, and here&#8217;s what he said\u00a0about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is one of the most profound novels I\u2019ve read in a long time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I also liked this book very much and marked it as a favorite on my <a href=\"http:\/\/shelfari.com\/Hitman666\">Shelfari<\/a> account and have commented it as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Try to imagine Sheldon Cooper (TBBT OFC) on a mission to find a wife. Well, you don&#8217;t have to &#8211; you can simply read this book :).Though am not a fan of romances, this one is excellent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyways, the quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will risk our life to save a person from drowning, yet not make a donation to save dozens of children from starvation.<\/p>\n<p>I am able to hug Rosie. This was the issue that caused me the most fear after she agreed to live with me. I generally find body contact unpleasant, but sex is an obvious exception. Sex solved the body contact problem. We&#8217;re now also able to hug without having sex, which is also convenient at times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quotes I noted from the book The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. This book was actually recommended \u00a0by Bill Gates, and here&#8217;s what he said\u00a0about it: This&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}