{"id":17362,"date":"2018-07-14T23:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T06:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17362"},"modified":"2018-07-14T23:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T06:42:45","slug":"big-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/07\/14\/big-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Big books"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The completist in me loves single-volume \u201ccomplete works of [author]\u201d books.<\/p>\r\n<p>The bargain hunter in me loves anthologies that include dozens of stories and hundreds of pages.<\/p>\r\n<p>The reader in me gets exhausted even looking at books that thick, and goes off to read something else, or play video games.<\/p>\r\n<p>This dynamic has been true for as long as I\u2019ve been buying books; something like 35 years now.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is one of the main mechanisms by which I\u2019ve ended up with several hundred unread (or, often, partially read) books on my bookcases.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17363,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions\/17363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}