{"id":392,"date":"2008-02-28T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/02\/28\/realistic-books\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T23:23:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T03:23:30","slug":"realistic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Realistic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither my mother nor my dog dies in this book.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m rather tired of those types of stories.\u00c2\u00a0 In my opinion, such fantastical, unrealistic books &#8212; books in which boys live on mountains, families work on farms, or anyone has <em>anything <\/em>to do with the Great Depression &#8212; have a tendency to rot the brain.\u00c2\u00a0 To combat such silliness, I&#8217;ve written the volume you now hold &#8212; a solid, true account.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully, it will help anchor you in reality.<\/p>\n<p>So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them that you don&#8217;t read &#8220;fantasy,&#8221; because you prefer stories that are real.\u00c2\u00a0 Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, <\/em>by Brandon Sanderson, p. 50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither my mother nor my dog dies in this book.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m rather tired of those types of stories.\u00c2\u00a0 In my opinion, such fantastical, unrealistic books &#8212; books in which boys live on mountains, families work on farms, or anyone has anything to do with the Great Depression &#8212; have a tendency to rot the brain.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,32,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humor","category-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}