{"id":6931,"date":"2015-10-13T04:41:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T04:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/13\/the-bookman-speaks\/"},"modified":"2015-10-13T04:41:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T04:41:13","slug":"the-bookman-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/13\/the-bookman-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bookman Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It would be a hard choice, but if I were forced to choose between books and people, I would choose books. In any case, a book is a man at his best. So it is in one sense a false alternative: choose books, and you get people, distilled, reduced to their essence, and in a form that makes it easy to &#39;close the book&#39; on their irritating particularisms. But people without books? That would be hell.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a hard choice, but if I were forced to choose between books and people, I would choose books. In any case, a book is a man at his best. So it is in one sense a false alternative: choose books, and you get people, distilled, reduced to their essence, and in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/10\/13\/the-bookman-speaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bookman Speaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","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=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}