{"id":11329,"date":"2008-07-23T15:19:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T19:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/07\/23\/11329.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:46","slug":"book-report-aubreys-brief-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/07\/23\/book-report-aubreys-brief-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Aubrey&#8217;s Brief Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?vid=OCLC01434589\">Aubrey&#8217;s Brief Lives<\/a> is one of those books that YHB had vaguely thought would be good to read, or at least to have read. Eventually, I took it out from the library, and over the better part of a year, managed to read it. Since it is in essence a compilation of short pieces, each a separate brief life, I could read one or two pages a week, or leave off altogether for a month, without losing either any narrative throughline (which there wasn&#8217;t, of course) or any necessary information for interpretation (which there wasn&#8217;t, really, either). So that was all right. My edition was a Dover from the mid-sixties, I think, and was very questionably edited from a scholarly standpoint, but then, I wasn&#8217;t reading it from a scholarly standpoint. I was what Dover had in mind, a not-entirely-ignorant reader who was mildly interested in Civil War gossip and Elizabethan trivia, looking to be entertained in a way I could feel was vaguely edifying, without needing to actually learn anything I need to know later.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger reads one of them classics of historical whatnot.<\/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-11329","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\/11329","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=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18449,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions\/18449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}