{"id":760,"date":"2006-01-25T23:01:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=760"},"modified":"2006-01-25T23:01:16","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T07:01:16","slug":"i-need-to-find-some-time-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"I need to find some time to read."},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone asked me what I’d read recently and I realized that besides, “Harry Potter and the Nonsensical Gobbledygook,” I haven’t read a thing lately. They could take the smallest of my college degrees<\/a> away from me for doing that. I was being funny when I said the latest thing I read was the TV Guide and I think it might have been truthful. Well, to catch up on a couple of series I keep reading, I checked out a stack of books. Now I just have to find time to read them.<\/p>\n

I guess what really triggered this recently was finding out that Sue Grafton had come out with “S is for Something-Related-to-Murder,” and rather than buying it I decided to get it from the library. I gave up buying books a couple of years ago when I realized I had a whole lot of crap in the house and books were a large percentage of the crap. I read a lot of mysteries, and those are usually resellable, fortunately, unlike romance novels.<\/p>\n

Speaking of unsellable old books, I think I’m going to have a bonfire with my old textbooks. Burning books just feels right somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone asked me what I’d read recently and I realized that besides, “Harry Potter and the Nonsensical Gobbledygook,” I haven’t read a thing lately. They could take the smallest of my college degrees away from me for doing that. I was being funny when I said the latest thing I read was the TV Guide and I think it might have been truthful. Well, to catch up on a couple of series I keep reading, I checked out a stack of books. Now I just have to find time to read them. I guess what really triggered this recently was finding out that Sue Grafton had come out with “S … Continue reading I need to find some time to read.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}