{"id":145,"date":"2009-12-30T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-12-31T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T02:57:28","slug":"great-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Great Books&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD has been reading two books about the Great Books. \u00a0\u00a0<em>A Great Idea at the Time<\/em> by Alex Beam is about the Great Books of the Western World, a project of the Encyclopedia Britannica and \u00a0the University of Chicago (Mortimor Adler &amp; Robert Hutchins). \u00a0 <em>The Whole Five Feet<\/em> by Christopher R. Beha is about the Harvard Bookshelf of great books. \u00a0The Beha book is the better of the two, because Beha includes a memoir of himself and his family and the year in which he read the volumes in the Harvard series. \u00a0As Lewis Carroll knew, we want &#8220;pictures or conversations&#8221; or at least something of &#8220;real life&#8221; in our books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Beha even makes one think that perhaps Thoreau (and Mr. FD who agrees with him) is right that one should &#8220;read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.&#8221; \u00a0Of all the authors and books described by both Beam and Beha, FD is thinking that the Stoic Philosopher Epictetus sounds the most interesting. \u00a0Perhaps FD will add reading Epcitetus to the New Year&#8217;s Resolution list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FD has been reading two books about the Great Books. \u00a0\u00a0A Great Idea at the Time by Alex Beam is about the Great Books of the Western World, a project of the Encyclopedia Britannica and \u00a0the University of Chicago (Mortimor Adler &amp; Robert Hutchins). \u00a0 The Whole Five Feet by Christopher R. Beha is about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}