{"id":3495,"date":"2009-05-08T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2009-05-08T03:25:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T07:25:02","slug":"green-eggs-and-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=3495","title":{"rendered":"Green Eggs and Crack."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomicsbook.com\/gallery\/images\/denmark_big.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3497\" title=\"denmark_big\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/denmark_big.jpg\" alt=\"denmark_big\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/denmark_big.jpg 300w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/denmark_big-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3500\" title=\"us_big\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/us_big-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"us_big\" width=\"200\" height=\"298\" \/>Apparently, the Danish didn&#8217;t want to go with the U.S.&#8217;s apples-and-oranges cover graphic, right, when they published <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomicsbook.com\/gallery\/images\/denmark_big.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\">their cracked yolk version<\/a>, above, of economist Steven Levitt&#8217;s and journalist Stephen J. Dubner&#8217;s 2005 smash, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomicsbook.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Levitt and Dubner&#8217;s treatise on the economics of drug dealing, sumo wrestler cheating, and the effects of abortion on crime has sold over 3 million copies to-date. That kind of worldwide success, you think, would move other countries to tow the line, stay with what works, and, <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomicsbook.com\/gallery\/index.html\"  target=\"_blank\">from the look of these other versions<\/a>, most did. Not the Danes, though&#8230;or the British, for that matter, who avoided foodstuffs altogether for both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomicsbook.com\/gallery\/images\/ukhardback_big.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\">hardcover<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomicsbook.com\/gallery\/images\/ukpaper_big.jpg\"  target=\"_blank\">paperback<\/a> versions of the book.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Hopefully Levitt\/Dubner will explain it in their upcoming text, <em>SuperFreakonomics<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollinscatalogs.com\/harper\/516_970_313335303539.htm\"  target=\"_blank\">I kid you not<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the Danish didn&#8217;t want to go with the U.S.&#8217;s apples-and-oranges cover graphic, right, when they published their cracked yolk version, above, of economist Steven Levitt&#8217;s and journalist Stephen J. Dubner&#8217;s 2005 smash, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Levitt and Dubner&#8217;s treatise on the economics of drug dealing, sumo wrestler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,77,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}