{"id":23573,"date":"2011-02-24T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2016-09-16T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:00:53","slug":"lots-o-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/lots-o-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots O&#8217; Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11241\" title=\"books\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I decided to gather up all the books in the rig so that I can reorganize them and catalogue their location. I sorted the books by categories. It&#8217;s amazing that this pile contains ALL my books; once upon a time a pile like this would have been a single book case!<\/p>\n<p>Still, looking at this picture, I can just hear the minimalists say &#8220;Wow, you&#8217;ve got a book problem!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I disagree.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of these books, I&#8217;d say 95%, came with me when I hit the road. They are my core library; the books I refer to all the time and which are well annotated. A small amount were added along the way and some removed. When I stocked Miranda, I weighed everything that went into her and I made the necessary sacrifices to enable me to bring these beloved books with me.<\/p>\n<p>I know I don&#8217;t have a book problem because I can get rid of tomes that are no longer relevant to me. I noticed quite a few cookbooks that I haven&#8217;t cracked open in ages that will be headed for the donation pile. There was a time when my books were very much clutter, but I&#8217;m happy to say I&#8217;ve got the addiction licked.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I just need to get through the &#8216;I&#8217;ve been meaning to read this&#8217; pile. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I decided to gather up all the books in the rig so that I can reorganize them and catalogue their location. I sorted the books by categories. It&#8217;s amazing that this pile contains ALL my books; once upon a time a pile like this would have been a single book case! Still, looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1070,6,635,5,3,16,998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blaine","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-washingon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}