{"id":40,"date":"2011-06-02T14:12:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/06\/02\/shameless-self-promotion-great-deals-on-dad-appropriate-diy-books-for-fathers-day-save-40\/"},"modified":"2011-06-02T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:12:32","slug":"shameless-self-promotion-great-deals-on-dad-appropriate-diy-books-for-fathers-day-save-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/06\/shameless-self-promotion-great-deals-on-dad-appropriate-diy-books-for-fathers-day-save-40\/","title":{"rendered":"*SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION!* Great Deals on Dad-appropriate DIY Books for Father&#8217;s Day: SAVE 40%!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My publisher, No Starch Press, is promoting several books&#8211;including <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/snipburn.htm\">mine<\/a>, the only non-LEGO book here&#8211;as Father&#8217;s Day gifts.  I own all of these books (and was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/2011\/06\/more_lego_technic_awesomeness_1.html\">just raving<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/2011\/03\/supercool_lego_technic_project.html\">Yoshihito&#8217;s Technic books<\/a> the other day), and they are pretty rad, with projects suitable for kids as young as four (my boy&#8217;s age when my book hit stores last winter) to teenagers (I also have two nephews, and used to teach in a K-12).<br \/>\nAt any rate, buy *before midnight Pacific time on June 5* using the coupon code <B>DADS11<\/b> and save 40%&#8211;that&#8217;s cheaper than Amazon, for God&#8217;s sake, and an especially good deal on several of these titles, since the publisher will throw in the ebook pack (DRM-free PDF, Kindle, and ePub versions) for free with the purchase of a print copy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/technic_machines.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/product_full\/technic_machines.png\" width=150><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/technic_contraptions.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/product_full\/technic_contraptions.png\" width=150><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/technic_wheels.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/product_full\/technic_wheels.png\" width=150><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/legobuilder.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/product_full\/legobuilder_big.jpg\" width=150><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/legoguns.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/product_full\/legoguns.png\" width=150><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/snipburn.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nostarch.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/product_full\/snipburn.png\" width=150><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My publisher, No Starch Press, is promoting several books&#8211;including mine, the only non-LEGO book here&#8211;as Father&#8217;s Day gifts. I own all of these books (and was just raving about Yoshihito&#8217;s Technic books the other day), and they are pretty rad, with projects suitable for kids as young as four (my boy&#8217;s age when my book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/06\/shameless-self-promotion-great-deals-on-dad-appropriate-diy-books-for-fathers-day-save-40\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;*SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION!* Great Deals on Dad-appropriate DIY Books for Father&#8217;s Day: SAVE 40%!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}