{"id":11797,"date":"2013-07-01T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11797"},"modified":"2013-07-01T18:19:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:19:44","slug":"have-many-books-have-you-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11797","title":{"rendered":"Have many books have you read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I started reading a long book: the near-600 page work entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/History-World-Andrew-Marr\/dp\/1447236823\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1372696245&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Marr\">&#8220;A History Of The World&#8221;<\/a> by Andrew Marr.<\/p>\n<p>In his Introduction, he states: &#8220;I calculate that around two thousand books, never mind pamphlets and journals, have been read for what follows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I have kept a diary for 50 years, I know how many books I have read. It is just over 700 &#8211; an average of a book a month.<\/p>\n<p>But Marr has read around 2,000 just for this project. Wow!<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Do you read more or less than a book a month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I started reading a long book: the near-600 page work entitled &#8220;A History Of The World&#8221; by Andrew Marr. In his Introduction, he states: &#8220;I calculate that around two thousand books, never mind pamphlets and journals, have been read for what follows.&#8221; As I have kept a diary for 50 years, I know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11801,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11797\/revisions\/11801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}