{"id":541,"date":"2008-06-22T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T23:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/22\/so-many-books\/"},"modified":"2008-06-22T19:37:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T23:37:02","slug":"so-many-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"So Many Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pass the time?&#8221; said the Queen.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Books are not about passing the time.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re about other lives.\u00c2\u00a0 Other worlds.\u00c2\u00a0 Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it.\u00c2\u00a0 If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>The Uncommon Reader, <\/em>by Alan Bennett, p. 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pass the time?&#8221; said the Queen.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Books are not about passing the time.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re about other lives.\u00c2\u00a0 Other worlds.\u00c2\u00a0 Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it.\u00c2\u00a0 If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.&#8221; &#8212; The Uncommon Reader, by Alan Bennett, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}