{"id":12740,"date":"2009-03-17T19:46:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/of-books-and-men\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T19:46:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T19:46:59","slug":"of-books-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/of-books-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Books and Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c011279736e4428a4-pi\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0240\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c011279736e4428a4 image-full \" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c011279736e4428a4-800wi\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" title=\"IMG_0240\" \/><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> A book is a man at his best. Who knows what Plato was like in the flesh? Maybe he suffered from halitosis. Perhaps he was unbearably domineering. But in his books I have him at my beck and call, for instruction, uplift, or just to keep the pre-Socratics from improperly fraternizing with Aristotle.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Each book on my shelves is a window, a window opening out upon a world. From Aristotle to <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zubiri.org\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Zubiri<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">, window after window, world upon world . . .<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book is a man at his best. Who knows what Plato was like in the flesh? Maybe he suffered from halitosis. Perhaps he was unbearably domineering. But in his books I have him at my beck and call, for instruction, uplift, or just to keep the pre-Socratics from improperly fraternizing with Aristotle. Each book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/of-books-and-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Books and Men&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-bibliophilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","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=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}