{"id":1859,"date":"2011-06-03T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2011-06-03T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:22:56","slug":"no-better-travel-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"No Better Travel Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we read novels?  What draws us to browse bookstores, to bring home a book, to open its cover and start in on a several-hundred-page trip?  Humans read literature in order to live more, to live differently, to have a precious vicarious experience that is available in no other way.  In the stories to come you may encounter a form of drastic dislocation, an opening of self like none other.  Reading literature puts you there.  No other travel plan comes even close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Arnold Weinstein, <em>Morning, Noon, and Night<\/em>, p. 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do we read novels? What draws us to browse bookstores, to bring home a book, to open its cover and start in on a several-hundred-page trip? Humans read literature in order to live more, to live differently, to have a precious vicarious experience that is available in no other way. In the stories to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}