{"id":24214,"date":"2019-02-04T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24214"},"modified":"2019-02-04T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:23:08","slug":"going-backwards-with-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/going-backwards-with-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Backwards with Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/the-book-accumulation-points-of-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\">mentioned<\/a> that I had a stack of books on the side table of my sofa that I browse during football games and that some of the books, especially the ones with high text-to-pictures ratios tends to fall to the bottom of the stack and remain on the side table for years.  Furthermore, I mentioned that I made it a mission this year to go through the stack and read those books to clear them away.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I moved them to another book accumulation point, the side table beside the reading chair.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday, in light of the Super Bowl, I went through the stacks and selected a couple of books from my to-read shelves (not from the books that had hibernated on the sofa side table for years, as those books were clearly not fit for browsing during a football game):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sofasidetable2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Some of these had, in fact, resided on the sofa side table in years past.  But I did not expect to be that involved in watching the Super Bowl itself, so I thought I could read more text-heavy tomes during the game.<\/p>\n<p><em>And then I didn&#8217;t actually watch much of the Super Bowl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gentle reader, that is how these things get started.  There&#8217;s no telling now how long the books will remain on the sofa side table, unread.  But, with history as a guide, it could be years.<\/p>\n<p>Well, no.  I have already cleared them to the reading side table where I shall browse them relatively quickly.  Or perhaps leave them for years.  Those very years will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned that I had a stack of books on the side table of my sofa that I browse during football games and that some of the books, especially the ones with high text-to-pictures ratios tends to fall to the bottom of the stack and remain on the side table for years. Furthermore, I mentioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214","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=24214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24215,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions\/24215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}