{"id":43,"date":"2015-12-01T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/?p=43"},"modified":"2015-12-01T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:58:22","slug":"bought-some-time-but-i-havent-spent-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/2015\/12\/01\/bought-some-time-but-i-havent-spent-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought some time but I haven&#8217;t spent it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old Schopenhauer-attributed quote that notes that we buy books but can&#8217;t also buy the <em>time<\/em> to read them. Every December I wonder if I will ever make a dent in the inventory of books I have obtained (through purchase or gift) but have yet to read. The lot includes <em>How to Swim with Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive<\/em> and Lorrie Moore&#8217;s <em>Self-Help.<\/em> If I were a betting person, I&#8217;d lay odds on the latter better than the former.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not ashamed of this situation. I think that cooking, cleaning, crafting, and <em>The Nightly Show<\/em> are more productive uses of my personal time than reading a used book I bought as mental broccoli, but the potential benefit of that brain bran nags at me.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? Do you have a top three list of books you own but have yet to read? It could be print or e-book\u2014doesn&#8217;t matter. It&#8217;s okay. You&#8217;re safe to share here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old Schopenhauer-attributed quote that notes that we buy books but can&#8217;t also buy the time to read them. Every December I wonder if I will ever make a dent in the inventory of books I have obtained (through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/2015\/12\/01\/bought-some-time-but-i-havent-spent-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.bellevuecollege.edu\/humblewriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}