{"id":5115,"date":"2012-09-21T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:47:14","slug":"my-latest-book-guns-germs-and-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=5115","title":{"rendered":"My latest book: Guns, Germs and Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel<\/p>\n<p>Recommended reading for everyone, nothing more to say!<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/09\/gunsgermsandsteel.jpg?mtime=1348208566\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2012\/09\/gunsgermsandsteel.jpg?mtime=1348208566\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998, it won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book&#8230;. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel Recommended reading for everyone, nothing more to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12504,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions\/12504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}