{"id":544,"date":"2008-06-28T20:22:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T00:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/06\/28\/books-confirm-your-own-opinion\/"},"modified":"2008-06-28T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T00:23:29","slug":"books-confirm-your-own-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Books Confirm Your Own Opinion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But then books, as I&#8217;m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.\u00c2\u00a0 Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.\u00c2\u00a0 You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.\u00c2\u00a0 A book, as it were, closes the book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>The Queen, <\/em>in\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Uncommon Reader, <\/em>by Alan Bennett, p. 114<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But then books, as I&#8217;m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.\u00c2\u00a0 Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.\u00c2\u00a0 You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.\u00c2\u00a0 A book, as it were, closes the book. &#8212; The Queen, in\u00c2\u00a0The Uncommon Reader, by Alan [&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-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}