{"id":15084,"date":"2019-07-30T02:17:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T08:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15084"},"modified":"2019-12-14T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T20:27:15","slug":"book-16-of-52-modern-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/book-16-of-52-modern-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 16 (of 52) &#8211; Modern Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15091\" style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/modernromance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15091\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15091\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/modernromance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/modernromance.jpg 342w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/modernromance-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/modernromance-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modern Romance &#8211; Aziz Ansari<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I first started this 52 book challenge in 2010 and, for the first time, an audiobook makes an appearance.\u00a0 A conversation at work led to me finding out that Aziz Ansari had written a book about the trials and tribulations of finding love in the 21st century, titled <em>Modern Romance<\/em>.\u00a0 Val sent me a link to a free copy of the audiobook, which I started the next day and finished yesterday on my flight to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari take a humorous look at how traditional dating has been turned on its head, and how mobile phones, apps, online dating, and changing social mores have made finding a life partner both easier and harder than ever.\u00a0 He also teamed up with a sociologist to look at the\u00a0behavioral data behind the changes and comes up with useful advice on how to navigate the dating battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I am not a big fan of audiobooks (which is somewhat surprising given my daily commute), but I don&#8217;t think I would have enjoyed this one as much in text form.\u00a0 Hearing Ansari&#8217;s voice helped bring across some of the data driven points in a comedic way.\u00a0 As I start to explore some of these apps, this will be useful information going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first started this 52 book challenge in 2010 and, for the first time, an audiobook makes an appearance.\u00a0 A conversation at work led to me finding out that Aziz Ansari had written a book about the trials and tribulations of finding love in the 21st century, titled Modern Romance.\u00a0 Val sent me a link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5810,8518,6582],"class_list":["post-15084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-aziz-ansari","tag-modern-romance","tag-val"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15329,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions\/15329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}