{"id":1305,"date":"2007-12-10T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/reading-deficiency\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T15:07:51","slug":"reading-deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/reading-deficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"reading deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I haven&#8217;t posted that much this year on the books that I&#8217;ve read, and that&#8217;s in large part because I&#8217;ve started about 20 or so books and not finished any of them, other than the <em>His Dark Materials<\/em> trilogy and Harry Potter (although, to be fair, I did manage to re-read the first six HP books in anticipation of number 7).&nbsp; My latest attempt?&nbsp; <em>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em>.&nbsp; I thought I&#8217;d finally dig into it before the movie, but then I found out the movie was terrible, so I lost interest in hurrying up and finishing the novel in time.&nbsp; So that&#8217;s sitting on my desk now, only 1\/3rd read.&nbsp; Of course, none of this stops me from actually <em>buying<\/em> new books, and I just picked up <em>Persepolis<\/em> (which is now available as a one-volume book in time for the film&#8217;s release).&nbsp; Since <em>this<\/em> film is supposed to be awesome, maybe it&#8217;ll actually incentivize me to read the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it&#8217;s a <em>comic<\/em>!&nbsp; (or graphic novel, or whatever you want to call it).&nbsp; So&#8230;vastly fewer words per page for me to actually have to get through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted that much this year on the books that I&#8217;ve read, and that&#8217;s in large part because I&#8217;ve started about 20 or so books and not finished any of them, other than the His Dark Materials trilogy and Harry Potter (although, to be fair, I did manage to re-read the first six HP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-l3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}