{"id":635,"date":"2008-01-28T01:14:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T01:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/books-oh-no\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T01:20:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T01:20:43","slug":"books-oh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/books-oh-no\/","title":{"rendered":"books – oh! no."},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister’s birthday was last week. She wasn’t 30 – or anywhere near – but I sent her a huge card with a compromising photo of herself (think: ‘shower cap and wild game’) that said she was. I didn’t get a thank you<\/em>, but I did get a there are no words<\/em>, which I took to mean it served its purpose. <\/em><\/p>\n

Her husband bought her a set of classics any bibliophile worth their salt would appreciate. <\/p>\n

“That one. It’s large print, right?” He said, pointing to a particularly hefty edition. <\/p>\n

“No,” said the sister. <\/p>\n

“And they expected me to read that in high school?” <\/p>\n

Her husband is an engineering super brain – he just doesn’t care for Victorian authoresses. Sister plans to remedy this. <\/p>\n

“I’m going to start reading it to him every night at bed time. He says he’ll let me.” <\/p>\n

I’m thinking he probably didn’t hear a word she said. Just nodded ‘yes’ like a lot of men like to do. I could be wrong. Or he could learn the value of reading a contract before signing off on it. We’ll see. <\/p>\n

She also made him swear, should anything happen to her, he would make certain their youngest daughter read Pride & Prejudice and knew it was from Darcy himself, whence came her name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sister’s birthday was last week. She wasn’t 30 – or anywhere near – but I sent her a huge card with a compromising photo of herself (think: ‘shower cap and wild game’) that said she was. I didn’t get a thank you, but I did get a there are no words, which I took<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}