{"id":33950,"date":"2025-06-22T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33950"},"modified":"2025-06-22T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T18:02:45","slug":"amateur-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/22\/amateur-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Ace of Spades weekly book thread, Perfesser Squirrel <a href=\"https:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/415337.php\" target=\"_new\">reports on going to a library book sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And buying 12 books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/good-book-hunting-saturday-may-3-2025-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">Last time I went to a library book sale<\/a>, I got 26 books, an audio book, four or five magazines, a stack of videos, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/04\/good-album-hunting-saturday-may-3-2025-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/\" target=\"_new\">a stack of records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next Saturday, I&#8217;m going to the Clever branch of the Christian County Library for its annual book sale.  If I only come away with 12 books, it probably means there were only twelve books left.  I mean, it will be $3 bag day.  <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/22\/good-book-hunting-saturday-june-22-2024-the-friends-of-the-christian-county-library-book-sale-clever-branch\/\" target=\"_new\">Last year<\/a>, I got 36 books into two bags.  My first job as a grocery bagger continues to save me money.<\/p>\n<p>But Perfessor Squirrel, <em>who claims to work at a university<\/em>, is a rookie.  One does not get to the next <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/22\/i-am-a-book-accumulator\/\" target=\"_new\">level of book ownership<\/a> at 12 a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Ace of Spades weekly book thread, Perfesser Squirrel reports on going to a library book sale. And buying 12 books. Last time I went to a library book sale, I got 26 books, an audio book, four or five magazines, a stack of videos, and a stack of records. Next Saturday, I&#8217;m going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950","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=33950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33951,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33950\/revisions\/33951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}