{"id":238,"date":"2010-11-29T04:36:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=238"},"modified":"2010-11-29T04:36:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T16:36:42","slug":"holiday-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD and Mr. FD always include at least a few books in our gift-giving. \u00a0But we don&#8217;t buy things that are designated as &#8220;holiday&#8221; reading. \u00a0No copies of <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em> &#8212; or any of its descendants!\u00a0\u00a0 No books, even for the youngest readers, about snowmen or santa, and none of the &#8220;coffee table&#8221; books that are specially designed for the shopper without any actual ideas.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we&#8217;ve bought some books of poetry (despite Chad Harbach&#8217;s\u00a0recent comment in <a href=\"http:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">n+1<\/a>, as quoted in Slate, that &#8220;it has become almost inconceivable that anyone outside a university library will read them&#8221;) and some books about art, and Mr. FD&#8217;s present to himself was a copy of Antonio Damasio&#8217;s new book about consciousness. \u00a0And it is still early; we&#8217;ll probably be back in the bookstore before the end of the gift-giving season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FD and Mr. FD always include at least a few books in our gift-giving. \u00a0But we don&#8217;t buy things that are designated as &#8220;holiday&#8221; reading. \u00a0No copies of A Christmas Carol &#8212; or any of its descendants!\u00a0\u00a0 No books, even for the youngest readers, about snowmen or santa, and none of the &#8220;coffee table&#8221; books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}