{"id":27224,"date":"2020-11-29T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27224"},"modified":"2020-11-29T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T13:20:15","slug":"the-book-accumulation-points-of-brian-j-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/29\/the-book-accumulation-points-of-brian-j-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Accumulation Points of Brian J., Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I explained <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/the-book-accumulation-points-of-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book accumulation points<\/a> last year (almost two years ago, actually).<\/p>\n<p>But I failed to explain one of the reasons why the stack of books has gotten so tall by my reading chair.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because my current black cat Isis defends them.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/isisdefending.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I try to reach for the books, and she bites me.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, she bites me for so many reasons.  Such as doing the laundry (she is no longer satisfied with <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/other-cat-games-of-nogglestead\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Arena of Isis<\/a>; now, she insists upon jumping on the bed whilst I&#8217;m folding laundry and batting and trying to bite me).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it is.  The black cats are all so sweet and friendly until they come to me, and then they become mean.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, she does not defend the side table that much.  I was just trying to use it as an excuse to justify my own habit of laying aside books to finish later, when <em>later<\/em> might be years.<\/p>\n<p>Isis actually prefers to jump on my lap when I am reading and inspect books by rubbing her cheek against them.  Clearly, she favors heavy hardback books which scratch her better than Executioner paperbacks or saddle-stitched self-published works.  But she prefers those to nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>And then she hops off and runs away, only to return minutes later to hop up and inspect the book again.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, though, she will settle into my lap for a long-Isis-time of a couple minutes.  But I am not to pet her.  Otherwise, she will bite me.  <em>Ibit<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I explained book accumulation points last year (almost two years ago, actually). But I failed to explain one of the reasons why the stack of books has gotten so tall by my reading chair. It&#8217;s because my current black cat Isis defends them. I try to reach for the books, and she bites me. Actually, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27224","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=27224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27227,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27224\/revisions\/27227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}