{"id":33195,"date":"2024-10-18T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33195"},"modified":"2024-10-17T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:42:02","slug":"book-report-old-school-day-romances-by-james-whitcomb-riley-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/18\/book-report-old-school-day-romances-by-james-whitcomb-riley-1909\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Old School Day Romances<\/i> by James Whitcomb Riley (1909)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI picked this book up in Davenport, Iowa, earlier this month<\/a>, and when I sought a book of poetry to leaven my evening reading, I grabbed it. As I mentioned, this is a lavishly illustrated 1909 book that makes me want to buy some Mylar to wrap it. It’s in fine condition and was only $10. I guess Riley fans are few and far between these centuries.<\/p>\n

As it stands, this is not a collection of poems, but a single poem lavishly illustrated. Pages with text have a series of borders with color illustrations of schoolday activities rotating at the top, and the book also features 10 slick full page illustrations woven throughout. The poem itself is a nostalgic look back at school days and a bit of the first romances you have at school, which leads to a bit of a question as for whom the book was made. Children still in school? They would like the pictures, I guess. Older people reminiscing? Perhaps it’s designed for parents and grandparents to read to children.<\/p>\n

The poem itself is not something I’ll memorize, but the book is beautiful, and I’m glad to own it.<\/p>\n

I’m also still a James Whitcomb Riley fan, although apparently Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems<\/a><\/em> remains the only other book I’ve read. Maybe I’ll get that 10-volume set from ABC Books<\/a> yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked this book up in Davenport, Iowa, earlier this month, and when I sought a book of poetry to leaven my evening reading, I grabbed it. As I mentioned, this is a lavishly illustrated 1909 book that makes me want to buy some Mylar to wrap it. It’s in fine condition and was only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195","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=33195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33197,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33195\/revisions\/33197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}