{"id":34538,"date":"2017-11-25T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34538"},"modified":"2017-11-14T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:19:16","slug":"qotd-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/25\/qotd-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Reading is inherently ephemeral, but it feels less so when you\u2019re making your way through a physical book, which persists when you\u2019ve finished it. It is a monument to the activity of reading. It makes this imaginary activity entirely substantial. But the quiddity of e-reading is that it effaces itself. [&#8230;] There is a disproportionate magic in the way black marks on white paper \u2014 or their pixilated facsimiles \u2014 stir us into reverie and revise our consciousness. Still, we require proof that it has happened. And that proof is what the books on my shelves continue to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Verlyn Klinkenborg, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/08\/11\/opinion\/sunday\/books-to-have-and-to-hold.html?smid=pl-share&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Books to Have and to Hold&#8221;, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, 2013-08-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading is inherently ephemeral, but it feels less so when you\u2019re making your way through a physical book, which persists when you\u2019ve finished it. It is a monument to the activity of reading. It makes this imaginary activity entirely substantial. But the quiddity of e-reading is that it effaces itself. [&#8230;] There is a disproportionate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41],"tags":[139,134],"class_list":["post-34538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quotations","tag-psychology","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Z4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34539,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions\/34539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}