{"id":1260,"date":"2021-01-23T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:34:23","slug":"bibliophile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"Bibliophile"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/pa-2020-012301.jpg 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Books. They are as necessary as breathing to me. Actually, that\u2019s a \u201cslight\u201c exaggeration, but barely. At the beginning of the pandemic, when the libraries shut down, as the weeks dragged on and I watched my stack of library books dwindle, I tried to pace myself so I wouldn\u2019t run out of them. It\u2019s not that I couldn\u2019t rustle through my own collection of books to find something to read if I really needed to, but I love libraries for the vast choices available \u2014 for free \u2014 and to suit every mood and interest. I have about twenty books out now, and should we end up with another shutdown, I am well prepared \u2014 with culinary histories, mysteries, poetry, and ecological essays and American Indian ethnobotany. Yep, something for every mood and whim.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books. They are as necessary as breathing to me. Actually, that\u2019s a \u201cslight\u201c exaggeration, but barely. At the beginning of the pandemic, when the libraries shut down, as the weeks dragged on and I watched my stack of library books dwindle, I tried to pace myself so I wouldn\u2019t run out of them. It\u2019s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bibliophile&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}