{"id":6867,"date":"2013-01-03T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2013-01-03T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:31:37","slug":"acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6867","title":{"rendered":"Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Friends of the Library always have a small selection of used books for sale in the main library, just in case you miss their Thursday and Saturday sales, which I almost always do. I was at the library returning a very overdue (oops!) book yesterday when the used books started calling to me. I obediently browsed through them and then bought four that looked interesting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Walk Two Moons<\/em> by Sharon Creech (because it&#8217;s on the <a title=\"Top 100 Children's Books\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?page_id=4630\">Top 100 Children&#8217;s Books<\/a> list, and if I borrow it from the library, I&#8217;ll probably end up returning it late, so why not just pay the fifty cents up front?)<\/li>\n<li><em>Hatchet<\/em> by Gary Paulson (same reason as above)<\/li>\n<li><em>Heidi<\/em> by Johanna Spyri (because I remember enjoying it as a child)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Gammage Cup<\/em> by Carol Kendall (because I remember owning it as a child but not reading it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While writing this post it occurred to me that it is Thursday today. That means the book sale is on. If I go out today, I might just have to stop by and see what other books they have for sale. I&#8217;m in a book-shopping kind of mood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Friends of the Library always have a small selection of used books for sale in the main library, just in case you miss their Thursday and Saturday sales, which I almost always do. I was at the library returning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6867\">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":[3,285],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867"}],"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=6867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6867\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}