{"id":811,"date":"2020-07-06T07:18:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2020-07-06T07:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:18:48","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was a big week for reading. I have to credit the introduction of The Hammock for a good deal of my reading. Something about the view and simply falling back into a reclined position puts the mind in a space to receive a good book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finished this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>A Cook&#8217;s Tour &#8211; <\/em>Anthony Bourdain<\/li><li><em>Gathering Moss &#8211; <\/em>Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/li><li><em>Paradise Lot<\/em> &#8211; Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates\u00c2\u00a0<\/li><li><em>The Tobacconist<\/em> &#8211; Robert Seethaler (translated by Charlotte Collins)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these were good books for very different reasons. I enjoyed them all. It&#8217;s difficult for me, as I get older, to figure out what I should recommend to a friend and what I enjoy because it resonates with some weird combination of things that might be specific to me. Not to say that I think I&#8217;m something unique, but I think there are plenty of things that I enjoy because I do and not because of anything grand or great about the thing itself. I&#8217;m more and more that way with books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a big week for reading. I have to credit the introduction of The Hammock for a good deal of my reading. Something about the view and simply falling back into a reclined position puts the mind in a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=811\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}