{"id":3793,"date":"2007-05-28T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2017-11-28T17:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:11:58","slug":"man-wastes-valuable-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/28\/man-wastes-valuable-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Wastes Valuable Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20070528\/D8PDB7K80.html\" target=\"_new\">Mo. Man Burns Books as Act of Protest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tom Wayne amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero&#8217;s Books. His collection ranges from best sellers like Tom Clancy&#8217;s &#8220;The Hunt for Red October&#8221; and Tom Wolfe&#8217;s &#8220;Bonfire of the Vanities,&#8221; to obscure titles like a bound report from the Fourth Pan-American Conference held in Buenos Aires in 1910. But wanting to thin out his collection, he found he couldn&#8217;t even give away books to libraries or thrift shops, which said they were full. So on Sunday, Wayne began burning his books protest what he sees as society&#8217;s diminishing support for the printed word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He certainly drew attention to his store, which probably boosted traffic, and that, ultimately, was his point.  But Wayne is a foolish wastrel.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I am paranoid, gentle reader, but I do have a plan B for my extensive library.  Not only do the books have excellent insulation properties, but they are a handy fuel source for fires should civilization collapse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I expect civilization to collapse that abruptly, but should it do so, I&#8217;ve got the books.<\/p>\n<p>You can probably guess what Plan B is for the cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo. Man Burns Books as Act of Protest: Tom Wayne amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used book store, Prospero&#8217;s Books. His collection ranges from best sellers like Tom Clancy&#8217;s &#8220;The Hunt for Red October&#8221; and Tom Wolfe&#8217;s &#8220;Bonfire of the Vanities,&#8221; to obscure titles like [&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-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18057,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/18057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}