{"id":5269,"date":"2013-02-26T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2013-02-26T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:33:44","slug":"its-all-right-i-have-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5269","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Right. I Have a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget on the necessity of reading materials:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nothing for me is worse than being in the back of an airplane or at a hotel with nothing to read. When in one mountainous far off place, I had to downsize a bag as the little airplane being piloted by what I believe was a Yeti, was weight restricted and my books were left behind for materials I had to have for the mission. I almost would have given up my tools, my poncho and my hiking boots than my little collection of paperbacks, of <i>Earth Abides<\/i> and <i>Stranger in a Strange Land <\/i>and a small leather bound book of Shakespeare sonnets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/on-books.html\">Read the rest.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridget on the necessity of reading materials: Nothing for me is worse than being in the back of an airplane or at a hotel with nothing to read. When in one mountainous far off place, I had to downsize a bag as the little airplane being piloted by what I believe was a Yeti, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1mZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1461,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1461","url_meta":{"origin":5269,"position":0},"title":"What Do Philosophers Believe?","author":"Chas S. 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