{"id":19711,"date":"2022-12-14T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T22:34:54","slug":"book-52-of-52-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/book-52-of-52-random\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 52 (of 52) &#8211; Random"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19712\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/random.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19712\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19712\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/random.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/random.jpg 323w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/random-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Random &#8211; Penn Jillette<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Vegas native hits a lucky roll of the dice and pays off his father&#8217;s gambling debts, saving his and his family&#8217;s lives.\u00a0 Feeling that his life has changed, he decides to give up all planning and decision making, leaving his life&#8217;s choices up to the dice.\u00a0 Will randomness keep him alive against the three things trying to kill him: the mobster who his dad owed money to, a thief who masterminded a casino heist, and the raging novel corona virus.<\/p>\n<p>Magician Penn Jillette brings us <em>Random<\/em>, his second novel.\u00a0 A long time Vegas resident, Jillette brings his knowledge of the town and its vibe to the book.\u00a0 The plot, however, could have used a little more work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an intriguing idea, but the execution is a little lacking, with the dice rolling getting a little boring the more often it happened.<\/p>\n<p>And there we have it, book #52!\u00a0 For just the second time since I started this &#8220;52 books in 52 weeks&#8221; challenge back in 2010, I made it to the finish line, and with a couple of weeks to spare.\u00a0 Now, I go after my personal record of 54 books, set all the way back in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vegas native hits a lucky roll of the dice and pays off his father&#8217;s gambling debts, saving his and his family&#8217;s lives.\u00a0 Feeling that his life has changed, he decides to give up all planning and decision making, leaving his life&#8217;s choices up to the dice.\u00a0 Will randomness keep him alive against the three [&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":[10254,10253],"class_list":["post-19711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-penn-jillette","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711","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=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19713,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions\/19713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}