{"id":5763,"date":"2026-06-20T08:43:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:43:31","slug":"my-review-of-thomas-mullaney-how-we-disappear-a-personal-history-of-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/my-review-of-thomas-mullaney-how-we-disappear-a-personal-history-of-information\/","title":{"rendered":"My review of Thomas Mullaney, How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"5764\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/my-review-of-thomas-mullaney-how-we-disappear-a-personal-history-of-information\/thomas-mullaney-how-we-disappear\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"986,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thomas Mullaney How We Disappear\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear-197x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear-673x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear-673x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5764\" style=\"width:467px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Thomas-Mullaney-How-We-Disappear.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA U.S. dollar bill, turned 90 degrees and tattooed top-to-bottom, edge-to-edge, with Psalm 23. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Right next to it, a small slip of paper, creased and soft, covered with six digit numbers. What did they mean?\u201d Thomas Mullaney found these items in his deceased grandfather\u2019s wallet&#8230; (<a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/newsletter\/dispatch-culture\/anne-hutchinson-puritans-colonies-faith\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA U.S. dollar bill, turned 90 degrees and tattooed top-to-bottom, edge-to-edge, with Psalm 23. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Right next to it, a small slip of paper, creased and soft, covered with six digit numbers. What did they mean?\u201d Thomas Mullaney found these items in his deceased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[73],"tags":[223],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews-nonfiction","tag-the-dispatch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1uX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}