{"id":858,"date":"2020-07-28T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:07:09","slug":"old-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Old Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/book-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/book-2.png 500w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/book-2-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption><em>Advanced Geography<\/em> by Tarr &amp; McMurry &#8211; 1909 Edition<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I love books. Especially old ones. And it&#8217;s 100 times better if there are pencil markings and notes and underlines throughout. And this particular book? It was marked up by members of my grandmother&#8217;s family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dad likes to sort through things and pass on items that he won&#8217;t use or doesn&#8217;t need anymore. I&#8217;m the family reader, so he offered me a pile of books. Only 6 or so. All of them of similar vintage. All of them marked up. This one has markings from 1911 when a family member or someone adjacent had it. Right around the time of the Spanish Flu. Ironic? No. Just coincidence that I&#8217;d note that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been picking through them. There are some primers in there and even a book of arithmetic which is mostly interesting for the word problems. The things we as a people calculated regularly is fascinating. It&#8217;s over 100 years ago now. Seems strange. I remember 2000 rolling around and thinking that I was in the future. Those were the days, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love books. Especially old ones. And it&#8217;s 100 times better if there are pencil markings and notes and underlines throughout. And this particular book? It was marked up by members of my grandmother&#8217;s family. My dad likes to sort &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=858\">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\/858"}],"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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}