{"id":7911,"date":"2019-04-29T23:14:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7911"},"modified":"2019-04-29T23:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:14:37","slug":"communicating-with-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7911","title":{"rendered":"Communicating with the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Gaiman-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Gaiman-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Gaiman-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Gaiman-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Books are the way that the dead communicate with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, the way that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Neil Gaiman, <em>Art\u00c2\u00a0Matters,<\/em> &#8220;Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading and Daydreaming&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Bull Run Regional Park, Virginia, April 8, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, the way that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over. &#8212; Neil Gaiman, Art\u00c2\u00a0Matters, &#8220;Why Our Future Depends [&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-7911","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\/7911","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=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7981,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions\/7981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}