{"id":2125,"date":"2024-03-25T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2024-03-25T09:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:08:20","slug":"first-book-blurb-from-one-of-my-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/first-book-blurb-from-one-of-my-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"First book blurb (from one of my heroes)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bookcover-march-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"2126\" class=\"wp-image-2126\" src=\"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bookcover-march-2024-784x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Just received this email from one of my heroes. A good man and true. (America missed out on his service, unfortunately). I will leave it to you to guess who&#8230;<br \/><em><strong><br \/>&#8220;Amar,<br \/>I love the cover and the title. I&#8217;m glad you kept &#8220;uncertainty&#8221; in it. To me understanding uncertainty is the key to understanding our emerging world.<br \/><br \/>Here is my quote:<br \/>&#8220;Amar Bhide has written an important book. It provides a wide-ranging and wonderful guide for flourishing in an uncertain world that is rapidly changing on economic, technological, political and social levels..He shows that our destiny doesn&#8217;t have to be controlled by authoritarian government or impersonal scientific forces. It can be a world we shape. All we have to do is make the effort as citizens to understand our time, hold true to our democratic traditions, and honor our best selves.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Feel free to use any portion of the quote or the whole thing for your purposes. I look forward to giving the book to all my friends interested in uncertainty.<br \/><br \/>I never will forget your comment after hearing my reading of Rolling Along in Jim&#8217;s living room at the very beginning of the effort. I think you compared it to &#8220;Our Town&#8221; which was the ultimate compliment for me. Thanks again. It&#8217;s now on MAX.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just received this email from one of my heroes. A good man and true. (America missed out on his service,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knightian-uncertainty-book","category-knightian-uncertainty-book-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}