{"id":10002,"date":"2012-01-19T05:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/19\/why-read-good-books\/"},"modified":"2012-01-19T05:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T05:02:36","slug":"why-read-good-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/01\/19\/why-read-good-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Read Good Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/so-why-read-anymore\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_self\">Another gem<\/a> from the pen of Victor Davis Hanson, national treasure.&#0160; And&#0160;be sure to follow the internal hyperlink to his reminiscences of Hitchens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Related posts of mine:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/09\/on-writing-well-the-example-of-william-james.html#more\" target=\"_self\">On Writing Well<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/05\/leo-strauss-on-reading-and-writing.html\" target=\"_self\">Leo Strauss on Reading and Writing<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/09\/my-method-of-study.html\" target=\"_self\">A Method of Study<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another gem from the pen of Victor Davis Hanson, national treasure.&#0160; And&#0160;be sure to follow the internal hyperlink to his reminiscences of Hitchens. Related posts of mine: On Writing WellLeo Strauss on Reading and WritingA Method of Study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-of-the-mind","category-studiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}