{"id":364,"date":"2008-02-12T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/02\/12\/book-bliss\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T01:49:40","slug":"book-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Book Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know that we do not <em>need <\/em>personal books &#8212; least of all librarian book collectors &#8212; but there is something about the way they speak to us unopened and spring to life when opened.\u00c2\u00a0 It is good to sit at home in peace surrounded by the books that mean so much to me, even if neither utilitarianism nor rationalism can tell me why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Michael Gorman, <em>Our Singular Strengths:\u00c2\u00a0 Meditations for Librarians, <\/em>p. 142<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that we do not need personal books &#8212; least of all librarian book collectors &#8212; but there is something about the way they speak to us unopened and spring to life when opened.\u00c2\u00a0 It is good to sit at home in peace surrounded by the books that mean so much to me, even [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}