{"id":13569,"date":"2014-06-29T05:34:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13569"},"modified":"2014-06-29T05:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:36:46","slug":"i-know-the-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/29\/i-know-the-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know The Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Harsanyi talks about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/nrd\/articles\/379638\/personal-library\" target=\"_blank\">his personal library<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not long ago, I popped into a Salvation Army store in suburban Maryland to check out the used-book section. I\u2019d unearthed plenty of gems in similar places, so it wasn\u2019t surprising that the visit proved similarly productive. Home came copies of William Safire\u2019s On Language and the novel Van Loon\u2019s Lives, an 890-page tome written in 1942 that imagines what dinner parties featuring some of history\u2019s most famous people might look like \u2014 Torquemada dines with Robespierre, Saint Francis with Mozart, and so on. Or, at least, this is what Wikipedia informs me Van Loon\u2019s Lives is about. The thing is, I probably won\u2019t read Van Loon\u2019s Lives. Actually, I may never again crack open Van Loon\u2019s Lives. Yet there it sits on my bookshelf between well-worn copies of A Short History of Byzantium and A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton \u2014 and, if I have my way, there it will sit for the next 30 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What he says matches my experience, although instead of hitting the local thrift stores frequently, I hit book fairs and sales where I can really stock up.  And on box days, I might as well pick up ever more esoteric titles and subjects because 1)it fits in the box\/bag, and I&#8217;m paying a flat fee for the box or bag anyway, so I might as well fill it up, and 2)If no one buys it, it will be shredded into kitty litter (Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library sale anyway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Harsanyi talks about his personal library: Not long ago, I popped into a Salvation Army store in suburban Maryland to check out the used-book section. I\u2019d unearthed plenty of gems in similar places, so it wasn\u2019t surprising that the visit proved similarly productive. Home came copies of William Safire\u2019s On Language and the novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13572,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions\/13572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}