{"id":4414,"date":"2008-05-06T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2025-01-24T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:37:20","slug":"good-book-hunting-may-3-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/good-book-hunting-may-3-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting: May 3, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even after our run on the Friends of the Old Trees Library book sale on Thursday, we decided to go out on Saturday to a couple of yard sales even though my beautiful wife used the &#8220;I&#8217;m going to have a baby any minute&#8221; excuse to limit our excursion.  I mean, come on, how else will you know if the fifty cent baby clothes are going to fit?<\/p>\n<p>So we only went to four garage sales, and I bought only two books at fifty cents each (since we didn&#8217;t discover if the baby clothes would fit).<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh31.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh31.jpg\" alt=\"A couple books from a garage sale\" title=\"A couple books from a garage sale\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\"><br \/><font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/i><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Master and Commander<\/i>, the historical novel by Patrick O&#8217;Brian.\n<\/li>\n<li><i>Dot Calm<\/i>, a book about relaxing in the modern world, I guess.  Want my hint?  Quit your job and work in your yard more often.  That&#8217;s what I did, and so far so good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amount spent: $1.00.  Number of books: 2.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a rare Saturday where I bought fewer books than I read over the course of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after our run on the Friends of the Old Trees Library book sale on Thursday, we decided to go out on Saturday to a couple of yard sales even though my beautiful wife used the &#8220;I&#8217;m going to have a baby any minute&#8221; excuse to limit our excursion. I mean, come on, how else [&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-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","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=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33462,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/33462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}