{"id":179,"date":"2006-07-31T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=179"},"modified":"2006-07-31T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T21:53:00","slug":"deep-survival-by-laurence-gonzales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/07\/deep-survival-by-laurence-gonzales.html","title":{"rendered":"Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had high hopes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0393326152\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why<\/a> but I was disappointed.  After some interesting first chapters about what happens in a moment of crisis, it devolved into the usual survival cliches.  You have to want it, never give up, believe in a higher power, do it for your loved ones, so on.  There were no studies or tests to prove that those cliches are true and it&#8217;s insulting to all the people who have died to imply that they didn&#8217;t have loved ones or weren&#8217;t thinking of them. <\/p>\n<p>The examples he cited were pointless.  So one person dies eleven days into being lost in the woods and another person is rescued on day seven.  What makes person two a survivor?  Sounds like luck to me.  But I guess it was the way he never gave up!!<\/p>\n<p>Stupid book that doesn&#8217;t live up to its title.  Don&#8217;t waste your time or money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had high hopes for Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why but I was disappointed. After some interesting first chapters about what happens in a moment of crisis, it devolved into the usual survival cliches. You have to want it, never give up, believe in a higher power, do it for your loved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}