{"id":33,"date":"2007-06-12T10:12:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/2007\/06\/12\/seriously-good-fun\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T14:12:53","slug":"seriously-good-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Seriously Good Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ta12large.thumbnail.jpg' class=\"left\"alt='The Universe Wants to Play' \/>In the July 2007 issue of of <a href=\"http:\/\/forteantimes.com\/reviews\/books\/474\/the_universe_wants_to_play_the_anomalist_12_a_nonfiction_anthology.html\" target=\"_top\"><em>Fortean Times<\/em><\/a>, Bob Rickard gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/ta12.html\" target=\"_top\"><em><em>The Universe Wants to Play<\/em><\/em><\/a>, which is really volume 12 of The Anomalist journal, a rousing welcome back to print from its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalist.com\/downloads.html\" target=\"_top\">one-issue venture <\/a>into the digital universe. &#8220;This edition,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;boasts 11 papers of the expected variety and excellence.&#8221; He describes each paper after slotting them into one of four general categories: fortean-related philosophy, social psychology, extrasensory perception in the sense of Fort&#8217;s &#8220;wild talents,&#8221; and the grey area between forteana and science. Rickard ends his review of this &#8220;touchy-feely\/dead tree&#8221; issue with a few words of praise: &#8220;This is essential and quality reading for serious forteans.&#8221; Thank you, Bob!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the July 2007 issue of of Fortean Times, Bob Rickard gives The Universe Wants to Play, which is really volume 12 of The Anomalist journal, a rousing welcome back to print from its one-issue venture into the digital universe. &#8220;This edition,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;boasts 11 papers of the expected variety and excellence.&#8221; He describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-universe-wants-to-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}