{"id":33404,"date":"2025-01-04T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33404"},"modified":"2025-01-04T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:02:56","slug":"it-begins-the-2025-winter-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/04\/it-begins-the-2025-winter-reading-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"It Begins: The 2025 Winter Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, gentle reader, apparently, I have left you in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>I reviewed the Springfield-Greene County Library&#8217;s <em>Bookends<\/em> magazine for the winter, and I spotted a notice for the 2025 Winter Reading Challenge which included a list of the categories (but not the form itself).  So I was able to start stacking up books that match the categories (or so I hoped), and on January 2, I picked up one of the forms at the library.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what it looks like blank:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2025winterreadingchallenge.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I started with six books to jump on in my annual quest to read not only the minimum five books (to get the mug), but a book in each category.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it&#8217;s January 4, <em>of course I&#8217;ve already started to fill it out<\/em>.  Details, and twee reflections on the books, to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, gentle reader, apparently, I have left you in the dark. I reviewed the Springfield-Greene County Library&#8217;s Bookends magazine for the winter, and I spotted a notice for the 2025 Winter Reading Challenge which included a list of the categories (but not the form itself). So I was able to start stacking up books that [&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-33404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404","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=33404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33406,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33404\/revisions\/33406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}