{"id":30646,"date":"2023-01-07T18:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30646"},"modified":"2023-01-07T18:13:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T00:13:49","slug":"it-begins-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/07\/it-begins-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"It Begins (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Springfield-Greene County Library 2023 Winter Reading Challenge has begun!  Here&#8217;s the paper form for the challenge, which lasts from January 3-February 28:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2023winterreadingchallenge.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>To win the blessed mug, one needs to read five books from these fifteen categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to a book<\/li>\n<li>Set in Space<\/li>\n<li>Religious or Spiritual<\/li>\n<li>Female Detective<\/li>\n<li>Cozy<\/li>\n<li>Author of Color<\/li>\n<li>Kids&#8217; Chapter Book<\/li>\n<li>Under 200 Pages<\/li>\n<li>Banned Book<\/li>\n<li>Speculative Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Nature\/Outdoors<\/li>\n<li>Page Turner<\/li>\n<li>Wartime Setting<\/li>\n<li>Pictorial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The beauty of the unread stacks here at Nogglestead is that I can pretty much find books from all of those categories without any trouble.  As a matter of fact, I&#8217;ve already picked out six books that fit the categories and have finished one with another to be completed tonight.<\/p>\n<p>So, game on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Springfield-Greene County Library 2023 Winter Reading Challenge has begun! Here&#8217;s the paper form for the challenge, which lasts from January 3-February 28: To win the blessed mug, one needs to read five books from these fifteen categories: Listen to a book Set in Space Religious or Spiritual Female Detective Cozy Author of Color Kids&#8217; [&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-30646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646","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=30646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30647,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30646\/revisions\/30647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}