{"id":592,"date":"2006-10-03T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2006-10-03T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T11:47:00","slug":"about-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"About a Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you&#8217;re a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I&#8217;m beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun. Persons of Letters have to read things like <\/i>Candide<i> or they&#8217;re a few letters short of the whole alphabet; book lovers, meanwhile, can read whatever they fancy.<\/i><br \/>\n-Nick Hornby, <i>Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt<\/i> via excerpt on Mcsweeneys.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you&#8217;re a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I&#8217;m beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun. Persons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}