{"id":6777,"date":"2009-11-01T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:14:41","slug":"best-of-art-of-manliness-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/blog\/best-of\/best-of-art-of-manliness-october-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Art of Manliness: October 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of cool stuff happen in October. The biggest news was the launch of our new book, <em>The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man<\/em>. A big thanks to everyone who has gone out and bought a copy (or 2 or 3&#8230;. or even 7! Thanks John T.). We really appreciate it. With the holidays coming up, consider picking up a few copies of our book for the men in your life. It would make a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/lifestyle\/gift-guides\/stocking-stuffers-for-men-2\/\">stocking stuffer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of holidays, we also released <em>A Man&#8217;s Guide to the Holidays <\/em>eBook. It&#8217;s crammed with tips guaranteed to give you the manliest holiday season ever. Learn how to tip like a gentleman around the holidays, hang Christmas lights efficiently, and cut down a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<h3>October&#8217;s Most Popular Posts<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/character\/etiquette\/how-to-exit-a-room-like-a-man\/\">How to Exit a Room Like a Man<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/style\/shaving\/how-to-straight-razor-shave\/\">How to Shave Like Your Great Grandpa: The Ultimate Straight Razor Shaving Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/how-to-speed-read-like-theodore-roosevelt\/\">How to Speed Read Like Theodore Roosevelt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/style\/hair\/the-mad-men-guide-to-a-manly-haircut\/\">The Mad Men Guide to a Manly Haircut<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/on-manly-loyalty\/\">On Manly Loyalty<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Art of Manliness T-shirts<\/h3>\n<p>Show off your Art of Manliness pride with one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/store.artofmanliness.com\/products\/strength-honor-t-shirt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6 manly t-shirts from TankFarm Clothing<\/a>. Also, makes a great Christmas present!<\/p>\n<h3>Subscribe<\/h3>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/TheArtOfManliness\">subscribe through RSS.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/artofmanliness\">follow Art of Manliness on Twitter<\/a>. Each day we provide inspiring manly quotes and cool man trivia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a lot of cool stuff happen in October. The biggest news was the launch of our new book, The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man. A big thanks to everyone who has gone out and bought a copy (or 2 or 3&#8230;. or even 7! Thanks John T.). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42296,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-blog"],"featured_image_urls":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169511,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/169511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}