{"id":26821,"date":"2020-09-20T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T17:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26821"},"modified":"2020-09-20T06:59:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T11:59:13","slug":"revisiting-old-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/20\/revisiting-old-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Old Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Good Book Hunting post in July 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/20\/good-book-hunting-thursday-july-19-2018-hooked-on-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I predicted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The real question is, which of these books will I read first (aside from Hundred Dollar Baby)? Probably the cartoons. How many will I have read by this time in 2020? Probably the cartoons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Analysis:  FALSE.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to figure out where that collection of cartoons is as it&#8217;s football season, so I have time to review cartoons between plays.  I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d already read it, but I don&#8217;t see it on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should consider <em>not buying so many books<\/em> since I tend to buy more in a given year that I actually read&#8211;and that&#8217;s about a hundred&#8211;so I am doing nothing but falling behind.<\/p>\n<p>But I have this real fear about not being able to find a book to read that I&#8217;m excited about&#8211;it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had to wander aimlessly by my bookshelves because nothing really appeals to me in the moment I&#8217;m looking for something to read&#8211;but the memory of that fear keeps me going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Good Book Hunting post in July 2018, I predicted: The real question is, which of these books will I read first (aside from Hundred Dollar Baby)? Probably the cartoons. How many will I have read by this time in 2020? Probably the cartoons. Analysis: FALSE. I&#8217;ll have to figure out where that collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821","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=26821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26822,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions\/26822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}