{"id":1295,"date":"2003-07-22T21:53:27","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T02:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/07\/22\/1295\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2003-07-23T02:53:27","slug":"1295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/07\/22\/1295\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read for at least one solid hour every day at lunch, and I&#8217;ve managed to get through all the new books I had with me already.  I brought <a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/wiendog\/cgi-bin\/Cold_Mountain_c.html\">Cold Mountain<\/a> with me today, because I had it and I hadn&#8217;t read it and everybody read it a few years ago, so why not.  Twenty pages in, I was like &#8220;forget it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So tonight I went out and got my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/ic20030722.jpg\">card<\/a>.  <i>Finally,<\/i> after twenty-two years, I have unfettered access to a metropolitan library system!  This is glorious.  I checked out nine hardcovers today (Flannery O&#8217;Connor, Terry Pratchett, lots of Margaret Atwood) and requested probably a dozen more, then biked back happy in the rain, my backpack taut and heavy with words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read for at least one solid hour every day at lunch, and I&#8217;ve managed to get through all the new books I had with me already. I brought Cold Mountain with me today, because I had it and I hadn&#8217;t read it and everybody read it a few years ago, so why not. Twenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}