{"id":34928,"date":"2026-02-21T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34928"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:17:50","slug":"the-rapid-pace-of-change-at-nogglestead-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/21\/the-rapid-pace-of-change-at-nogglestead-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rapid Pace Of Change At Nogglestead, I Guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the weekend before last, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/10\/the-slow-pace-of-change-at-nogglestead-and-a-book-accumulation-point-decommissioned\/\" target=\"_new\">I mentioned<\/a> moving some books from the table beside the sofa upstairs which had been on the table for <em>years<\/em>, mostly untouched&#8211;I&#8217;d placed them there whilst I was awaiting my high-school-aged son to come home from closing the restaurant where he worked at the time so I could read them while waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Well, a week after I cleared it, other books moved in.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sidetablenow.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I have finally convinced my oldest, for whom we waited but now he&#8217;s almost done with juco, to not only watch videos on things but to read primary sources, of which Nogglestead has many.<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s started to nibble at them, and he&#8217;s stacking them up.  The copy of <em>Meditations<\/em> is the one I gave him during the coronavacation in 2020&#8211;the one I read <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/book-report-meditations-by-marcus-aurelius-classics-club-edition\/\" target=\"_new\">in 2019<\/a>, not long after we moved to Nogglestead, was a Classics Club edition, one of the only ones I&#8217;ve read.  Jeez, sixteen years&#8230;.  Maybe I&#8217;m due to read it again myself.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I hope he continues to actually read, or at least continues to start to think it would be a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the weekend before last, I mentioned moving some books from the table beside the sofa upstairs which had been on the table for years, mostly untouched&#8211;I&#8217;d placed them there whilst I was awaiting my high-school-aged son to come home from closing the restaurant where he worked at the time so I could read them [&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-34928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928","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=34928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34930,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions\/34930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}