{"id":10913,"date":"2008-01-30T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/01\/30\/10913.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:09","slug":"book-report-an-uncommon-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/01\/30\/book-report-an-uncommon-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: An Uncommon Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Reader is getting behindhand in book reports again. And I'm sick as a dog. So I'll just dash off a short note about a short book. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com\/FSG\/search\/SearchBookDisplay.asp?BookKey=7208700\">The Uncommon Reader<\/a> is marvelous. I'm a big fan of Alan Bennett, who seems to write plays, memoirs and novellas with nearly equal facility, and I think fans of Alan Bennett are pretty nearly guaranteed to enjoy this book.<br \/>\n<p>Really, though, this is a book about reading (and the monarchy), and has plenty in for anyone who enjoys reading (or the monarchy); you needn't be a fan of Alan Bennett (or the Queen) particularly.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn&#8217;t complain at length about strep throat. But, as long as you are bringing it up, are any of you inclined to write it in all caps, as STREP throat? It seems to me like it should be an acronym, rather than a shortening. Sore Throat with Really Excruciating Pain, perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18244,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions\/18244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}