{"id":32995,"date":"2024-08-19T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32995"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:38:23","slug":"surprisingly-i-scored-1-of-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/19\/surprisingly-i-scored-1-of-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly, I Scored 1 of 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/advice\/six-of-the-worlds-best-city-bookshops\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Six of the world\u2019s best bookshops \u2013 and where to sit and read nearby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, I got only 4 of 9 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/a-quiz-wherein-brian-j-has-a-failing-grade\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">best bookshops in Missouri<\/a> (and probably 3 of 9 with whatever replaced Calvin&#8217;s Books in Branson which <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/24\/so-what-do-you-want-to-do-in-branson-my-beautiful-wife-asked\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">closed in 2021<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But best in the WORLD?  As described in a British newspaper?<\/p>\n<p>I actually visited one, City Light Books, on our last trip to San Francisco which must have been, what, ten years ago?  Our second trip to the Bay Area.  The one where we also went to Yoshi&#8217;s in San Francisco before it closed.<\/p>\n<p>And, to be honest, I am likely to hit one of the other book stores on the list before we visit San Francisco again.  Which is to say, unlikely at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six of the world\u2019s best bookshops \u2013 and where to sit and read nearby I mean, I got only 4 of 9 in the best bookshops in Missouri (and probably 3 of 9 with whatever replaced Calvin&#8217;s Books in Branson which closed in 2021). But best in the WORLD? As described in a British newspaper? [&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-32995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995","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=32995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32996,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions\/32996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}