{"id":18938,"date":"2020-11-25T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18938"},"modified":"2020-11-26T14:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:15:55","slug":"day-257-pat-on-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18938","title":{"rendered":"Day 257: Pat on the Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week I finished my 37th book of the year (<em>Piranesi<\/em> by Susanna Clarke), and that means that I&#8217;ve already beaten my reading totals for the years 2105 (32), 2016 (35), 2017 (27), and 2019 (33). So, though I feel like I haven&#8217;t read enough books this year, I probably ought to give myself a pat on the back. And if I can maintain a normal reading pace for the remainder of the year, I might be able to tie or exceed my reading total from 2018 (42). Currently I am reading <em>The Trees <\/em>by Ali Shaw. It&#8217;s longish and could end up slowing me down, but I hope it will provide the eerie atmosphere that I&#8217;m craving in fiction right now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I finished my 37th book of the year (Piranesi by Susanna Clarke), and that means that I&#8217;ve already beaten my reading totals for the years 2105 (32), 2016 (35), 2017 (27), and 2019 (33). So, though I feel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[607,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18965,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18938\/revisions\/18965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}