{"id":416,"date":"2013-06-07T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2013-07-09T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:18:36","slug":"audiobooks-on-long-trips-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/audiobooks-on-long-trips-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobooks On Long Trips Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once drove from Atlanta to Toronto with a pile of books-on-tape (it was a long time ago). Somewhere around Toledo I put in Shelby Foote\u2019s account of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/shiloh\/oclc\/229230658\">Battle of Shiloh<\/a>. On the fourth tape, somewhere outside London, Ontario, the tape screwed up. That\u2019s why we don\u2019t use tapes anymore. I am still unsure how the battle came out &#8212; maybe your library has a copy:<\/p>\n<p>Now, you are on your own, and can sing along with the entire recorded works of Black Sabbath if you like \u2013 but once your throat hurts badly enough, you may want to listen to something different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/05\/best-audiobooks\">The Awl<\/a> has a piece where contributors make their own, um, contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once drove from Atlanta to Toronto with a pile of books-on-tape (it was a long time ago). Somewhere around Toledo I put in Shelby Foote\u2019s account of the Battle of Shiloh. On the fourth tape, somewhere outside London, Ontario, the tape screwed up. That\u2019s why we don\u2019t use tapes anymore. I am still unsure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/audiobooks-on-long-trips-alone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Audiobooks On Long Trips Alone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks-for-dad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}