{"id":526,"date":"2008-06-28T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=526"},"modified":"2008-07-02T23:33:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T03:33:39","slug":"books-books-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"Books, Books, Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful Reader is back! And with him came a house guest&#8212;his friend, V. The three of us jumped in the car on Thursday and went to the big annual book sale in Westerly (the <a title=\"There and Back Again\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=84\" target=\"_self\">same one<\/a> I went to last year).<\/p>\n<p>I got 14 books and a CD for just $12!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Death in the Andamans<\/em> by M.M. Kaye (on my list of books to read someday)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd<\/em> by Agatha Christie<\/li>\n<li><em>The Seven Dials Mystery<\/em> by Agatha Christie<\/li>\n<li><em>Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator<\/em> by Roald Dahl<\/li>\n<li><em>The Zaniest Riddle Book in the World<\/em> by Joseph Rosenbloom<\/li>\n<li><em>The Best Book of Puns<\/em> by Art. Moger<\/li>\n<li><em>World&#8217;s Best Riddles<\/em> by Joseph Rosenbloom<\/li>\n<li><em>The Twenty-One Balloons<\/em> by William Pene Dubois (also on my list of books to read someday)<\/li>\n<li><em>Mary Poppins from A to Z<\/em> by P.L. Travers<\/li>\n<li><em>Mary Poppins and the House Next Door<\/em> by P.L. Travers<\/li>\n<li><em>Get That Novel Started (and Keep It Going &#8216;Til You Finish)<\/em> by Donna Levin<\/li>\n<li><em>Laughing Stock<\/em> edited by Bennett Cerf<\/li>\n<li><em>The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America<\/em> by Bill Bryson<\/li>\n<li><em>Pippi Longstocking<\/em> by Astrid Lindgren<\/li>\n<li><em>The Freedom Sessions<\/em> by Sarah McLachlan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was not the biggest spender. Here I am, such an avid reader and collector of books, and yet they both outdid me! How the heck did that happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faithful Reader is back! And with him came a house guest&#8212;his friend, V. The three of us jumped in the car on Thursday and went to the big annual book sale in Westerly (the same one I went to last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=526\">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":[100,3],"tags":[62,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"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=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}